2023-07-04 14:33:10
He is no longer on the run. The man who escaped from Argentan prison (Orne) on June 20, was arrested on Tuesday in Avrillé, north-west of Angers (Maine-et-Loire) around 12:50 p.m. by the anti-crime brigade ( Bac), confirms the parquet floor of Angers to the Parisian. The suspect, aged 42 and presented as dangerous, was arrested in a building under renovation.
According to our information, construction workers noticed that a construction hut was fractured and that food had disappeared. They notified the police. Chased by the Bac, the man jumped from a balcony and injured himself before being arrested.
Originally from Reunion, he must be imprisoned as part of the arrest warrant which has targeted him since his escape, and placed in police custody, said the prosecutor who must give a press conference in the afternoon.
Suspected of two murders and an attempted homicide
The man is suspected of two murders and an attempted homicide since he fled, thanks to a day’s leave to carry out administrative procedures. The first victim is a 40-year-old woman, found dead at her home in Angers on June 22. This is the ex-companion of a fellow prisoner of the respondent.
The fugitive also fatally attacked a septuagenarian whose body was discovered on Sunday July 2 at his home in Chailland (Mayenne). He then stole his car.
On June 28, the suspect had committed an attempted robbery and homicide on a pregnant woman further north in Chailland (Mayenne). This victim was saved thanks to the intervention of a third party who intervened. The man on the run managed at that time to escape the police by taking refuge in a wood.
Sentenced to a criminal sentence
A large force of several dozen gendarmes and police had been deployed since Monday in an area north of Angers to try to find this man, who had been the subject of a wanted notice and a call for witnesses since Monday. evening. On Twitter on Tuesday, the Minister of the Interior thanked the mobilized police “who contributed to his arrest”.
The fugitive suspected in particular of two homicides has just been arrested by the police of the BAC in Maine-et-Loire. Thank you to the police and gendarmes mobilized in recent hours and who contributed to his arrest.
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) July 4, 2023
In the morning, the public prosecutor of Angers had called for caution and not to intervene in the face of this fugitive with a “dangerous forensic” profile. “He is a person who is likely to enter homes,” warned Éric Bouillard, while tempering: “He tries more to hide than anything else.”
Originally from Reunion, he was serving two sentences in the Argentan detention center, one criminal and one correctional, one of 12 years for attempted murder by spouse or partner and a three-year correctional sentence for aggravated property damage.
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