A 35-year-old man, wanted on suspicion of the murder of his probable 25-year-old boyfriend in Alès (Gard), was arrested Tuesday evening at Marseille station, spotted by an off-duty police officer, he said. -we learned from consistent sources.
Early Tuesday afternoon, the lifeless body of a 25-year-old man was discovered in his apartment in Alès, after an alert given by his mother.
But the friend who was still with his son in the morning and who, according to several witnesses, had an intimate relationship with him, was no longer there, pushing the prosecution to open a murder investigation, the AFP explained on Wednesday. Alès prosecutor, Abdelkrim Grini.
The suspect's car was then discovered abandoned in Nîmes and everything suggested that this native of Marseillais was going to try to reach his city. The prosecutor therefore launched the alert to the gendarmes and police officers of the great south.
Spotted on the train
It was on the train between Nîmes and Marseille that an off-duty police officer, belonging to the interdepartmental public transport security service (SISTC), spotted him in the neighboring carriage and warned his colleagues, who arrested him when he got off the train, we learned from police sources.
Placed in police custody and transferred to Alès, he was hospitalized in psychiatry after an assessment, according to the prosecutor. Known for traffic offenses, he is said to be prey to hallucinations.
The autopsy of his friend's body revealed a “mechanical asphyxia“, indicating that he died of suffocation. But the investigation will have to determine how exactly, his body showing no particular lesions, detailed Mr. Grini.
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