the suspect arrested in Portugal had already been convicted 19 times – Libération

A heavy criminal record. The man who was arrested Thursday in Portugal in connection with the murder of Lilian Dejan, a municipal employee in Grenoble (Rhône-Alpes), has 19 convictions to his credit and was “incarcerated for the first time at the age of 15”revealed the prosecutor of the Alpine town Eric Vaillant, this Friday, November 22. In total, the suspect, aged 25, was sentenced to six years in prison “during the last ten years”added the magistrate. He will be “delivered in the coming weeks” to French justice.

The day before, the prosecutor announced that investigators were carrying out checks to ensure his identity. “A man likely to be Abdoul Diallo”suspected of the murder of Lilian Dejean, “has just been arrested in Portugal under the European arrest warrant” issued after the tragedy, Eric Vaillant declared to the press. The courts announced that a European arrest warrant had been issued on September 16 against the suspect on the run. In total, “more than 40 investigators” were devoted to his “stalking”estimated Eric Vaillant this Friday.

The suspect “was presented to a judge at the Porto court and agreed to be extradited”declared in the evening a spokesperson for the judicial police, specifying that his transfer will be carried out “in coordination with the French authorities”.

Lilian Dejan, municipal employee of the city of Grenoble, was shot dead in the street on Sunday September 8 while he tried to prevent a man who had caused a traffic accident from fleeing. Born in Valence (Drôme), Lilian Dejean grew up in the Olympic Village district, in the south of Grenoble, where he was still living at the time of his death. He was a team leader in the city's cleanliness department, where he had worked for more than twenty years. He was also one of the executives of the local CGT – who raised nearly 30,000 euros in a fundraiser launched to support his wife and two children.

The suspect known to the courts for “theft, violence and drug trafficking”

The suspect, aged 25, whose identity document was found in the Audi RS3 registered in Poland which he abandoned on site, has since been actively sought. The man was known to the courts in particular for “theft, violence and drug trafficking” and for having beaten, with five fellow prisoners, another prisoner at the Varces remand center (Isère) in June 2023. Information judicial was opened on September 11 to find him.

The Alpine metropolis experienced a summer marked by numerous shootings between drug traffickers. At least 17 episodes of gun violence have been recorded in the territory since the start of the year and the authorities no longer hesitate to talk about “gang war”.

Update : this Friday, November 22 at 7:18 p.m., with the addition of the suspect's decision to be extradited to France.