Alcoholic and positive at cocaine, a man was arrested by the police in Calais. He was wanted after the death of two young people in the Deauville region. 160 gendarmes, a helicopter and a cynophile team were mobilized to find the suspect.
A man sought after after the death of two young people in the Deauville region (Calvados) was arrested on the night of Friday to Saturday in Pas-de-Calais, the public prosecutor of Caen told AFP, Joël Garrigue. “I confirm his arrest tonight in Pas-de-Calais,” said Joël Garrigue.
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A leak aboard his vehicle
The arrest took place after 1:30 am, according to a police source. The police wanted to control the thirties in Coquelles, near Calais, but he fled aboard his vehicle, before crossing a roundabout at high speed and finishing his race in Calais. He was placed in police custody.
The man was alcoholic and had cocaine, according to the same source. Complaining about back pain, he was taken to the hospital, she added. The bodies of a 20-year-old man and woman, as a couple, who disappeared on Wednesday, had been found on Thursday in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, a commune near Deauville.
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“A man in his thirties, residing in the town of Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, who would have been in contact with the victims on the day of January 22 is currently actively sought by the national gendarmerie”, had The Caen prosecutor said on Friday, adding that this man was “potentially armed and dangerous”.
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The gendarmerie had mobilized 160 gendarmes, a helicopter and a cynophile team from Thursday to Saturday to find the suspect. The autopsy of the deceased young man confirmed that he “presented a head trauma and the traces of violent blows carried on the face” and that he “was the victim of a gunshot”. The autopsy of his partner will take place in “beginning of next week,” added the prosecutor.
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The Caen prosecution said Thursday evening ignore “the circumstances in which these two young people were killed” and the possible motivations of the double homicide. “No hypothesis is excluded,” he said. A judicial information was opened against X of the chief of murder and the investigations continue under the direction of an investigating judge.
