Wanted in Europe: The escapee with Luxembourg bags would have killed several homeless people in France

A man, arrested Tuesday evening on a train in Toulon, France, is suspected of having killed a homeless man in Lyon by hitting him with a concrete block, of having seriously injured a homeless man in Rotterdam and of having committed three other homicides, in Evry, Dijon and Strasbourg. He presented himself during his arrest as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), according to a French police source. He is suspected of having committed the homicides and the attempted homicide “with the same modus operandi”, according to another police source.

According to another source, he only attacked homeless people and the known crimes spanned the last few weeks. Tuesday evening, the railway police were called after the attack on a young woman on board a train. Its author was arrested at Toulon station. “After checking the file of wanted persons, they realized that he was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge from Evry,” he said.AFP the Toulon prosecutor Samuel Finielz. “The man has been placed in detention and measures will be taken so that he is transferred to the ordering investigating judge”, or to Evry, he added, without giving further details.

On the night of November 4 to 5, a homeless man was attacked in the same way in Rotterdam. The scene was also filmed. In recent days, the Dutch police had launched a call for witnesses to find this attacker, probably in his thirties, for “attempted murder”. The actively sought man “was in possession of large shopping bags, of the ‘ECO-bags’ type which can be purchased in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg”, specified a press release also relayed in Belgium since he had then was located on board an international train heading to Belgium.

Analyzes, particularly DNA, are now underway to determine whether he is indeed the author of all these crimes. After the arrest in Toulon, the Dutch police said they were “investigating to find out if this is the suspect linked to the Rotterdam attack”. “At this stage we cannot confirm this,” spokesperson Janine Tuinfort told theAFP.

In Lyon, a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was discovered dead Monday morning with a large wound on his head, a bloody concrete block next to him. A CCTV camera filmed someone hitting him in the head. An investigation into murder has been opened.