A man wanted for a double infanticide, committed on May 11 in Hanau near Frankfurt in Germany, was arrested in the Paris region shortly after the facts by the French police, we learned on Wednesday June 29 from the French judicial police. .
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Born in 1972 and of Indian nationality, the man was arrested on May 14 “without difficulty“In a Sikh temple located in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) where he had found refuge, explained to AFP, Guillaume Lacassin, head of the National Brigade for the Search of Fugitives (BNRF). He is suspected of being responsible for the death on May 11 of his 7-year-old daughter, whose throat was slit in the family apartment on the ninth floor of a building in Hanau in the suburbs of Frankfurt, and that of his 11-year-old son. years, found lifeless at the foot of the building.
The drama intervened in a “context of separation of the couple“. The mother was absent at the time. The man then fled. His run seems to have beenprepared“, since he had carried out “a large withdrawal of nearly 3,000 euros on the morning of the incident“, underlined Commissioner Lacassin. He then took a train to Aix-la-Chapelle, spent a night in a Sikh temple in Belgium, before being located in the Bobigny temple. According to the first elements of the investigationhe had no ties to France“, explained Commissioner Lacassin, who underlined the “good coordinationbetween the Belgian, German and French police and judicial authorities, which led to this arrest. Imprisoned in Fresnes since his arrest, he must be handed over to the German authorities in the coming days.
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