The day after the arrest in Portugal of the main suspect in the murder on September 8 in Grenoble of Lilian Dejean, the Guadeloupean municipal agent, the public prosecutor, Éric Vaillant, gave a press conference. He gave more information about the man arrested.
During a press conference this Friday, November 22, the Grenoble prosecutor, Eric Vaillant, confirmed the arrest of the suspect, Abdoul Diallo, yesterday around 5 p.m. (Portugal time), in the town of Póvoa de Lanhoso, north of Porto, the capital.
He then insisted on the important work carried out in France by the police of Isère and Rhône, which made it possible to know where the suspect was in Portugal.
“More than forty investigators“from the Organized and Specialized Crime Division of Isère, specialized investigators from the DCOS of Lyon and police officers from the national directorate of the judicial police, worked at the “stalking” of the suspect.
The affair “obviously priority“mobilized”maximum human and technical resources“, underlined Damien Delaby, zonal director of the Judicial Police also present at this press conference.
Eric Vaillant then provided more information on the suspect, Abdoul Diallo, already convicted 19 times. His name was discovered after the discovery, by investigators, of an identity document in an damaged car, abandoned in front of Grenoble town hall.
Now aged 24, he was first incarcerated at 15. Over the past 10 years, he has been sentenced to a total of six years in prison for crimes of violence and drug trafficking.
The suspect is currently detained in Portugal under the arrest warrant, issued a few days after the murder of Lilian Dejean, by the Grenoble investigating judge in charge of the case. He will not be questioned about the facts before his transfer to France. “It should be handed over to this magistrate in the coming weeks” explained the prosecutor. This one could take “five to six weeks” he said. “He probably thought he was safe“, affirmed Eric Vaillant.
The prosecutor concluded by asserting thatInvestigations continued into possible accomplices who helped Abdoul Diallo in his escape. So far, no arrests have been made.
The 49-year-old Guadeloupean father was shot in the chest on September 8 while trying to prevent a man who had caused a traffic accident from fleeing at the wheel of a powerful car. rental registered in Poland.
He died shortly afterwards in hospital. His death caused immense emotion among his colleagues and residents.
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