The man suspected of murdering a homeless man with a cinder block and several attempted homicides indicted

Arrested Tuesday evening at Toulon station (Var), this man is indicted for attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention.

The man suspected of having murdered a homeless man in Lyon with a concrete block and of several attempted homicides in France and the Netherlands is indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, announced Saturday, November 16, the public prosecutor's office. 'Evry (Essonne), to AFP. He was arrested Tuesday evening at Toulon station (Var).

This man was “indicted for attempted assassination” Friday evening, detailed Grégoire Dulin, public prosecutor of Evry, for “acts committed in Evry on October 23”. That day, a man was hit with a concrete block, in front of the Evry-Courcouronnes station. A judicial investigation was opened and an arrest warrant issued against the suspect. “In the coming days, the Evry public prosecutor's office will receive from the public prosecutor's offices concerned all the procedures involving the accused”which will be referred to the investigating judge in charge of the case in Essonne, added the prosecutor.

Genetic analyzes have confirmed a link between the murder of a homeless man in Lyon on Monday and the similar attempted homicide in Evry on October 23, the Lyon prosecutor's office said on Friday. The suspect in these two cases was arrested at Toulon station after the attack on a young woman on board a train traveling in the south of France. He presented himself during his arrest as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to an Obligation to Leave French Territory (OQTF).

In addition to the murder in Lyon and the attempted homicide in Evry, investigators are wondering about his role in several attacks carried out with a similar modus operandi in Dijon, Strasbourg and Rotterdam.