The criminal had been sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2012 for intentional homicide.
Farid Toloun, a former robber from Lyon sentenced to 24 years in prison for intentional homicide, has just joined Europol’s “Most Wanted” list, the most wanted criminals in Europe.
This 49-year-old man, born in Vaulx-en-Velin in the suburbs of Lyon, was in the 1990s “one of the leaders of a criminal organization whose particularly determined and violent members carried out a series of armed robberies in the Lyon region“Explains the European police agency in the search sheet released since September 28.
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The robber, “like many at the turn of the 2000s, turned to drug trafficking“, adds Commissioner Guillaume Lacassin, the head of the fugitive search brigade (BNRF) in France, to AFP. “He’s one of our biggest fugitives“, adds the commissioner. The police do not know if he is in France or abroad.
Already sentenced in 1998 to eight years in prison for armed robberies, he was sentenced in 2012 to 24 years in prison for intentional homicide. The facts that earned him this last conviction date from June 10, 2005. That night, “with the assistance of three accomplices, he monitored two criminals belonging to a rival team», Details Europol.
“After several hours of surveillance, and riding a motorcycle, they followed their target” and “fired on the vehicle occupied by their rivals“. The driver died and the passenger wasseriously injured“.
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Farid Tolun, bearer of a “scar on the forehead and a scar on the right cheek», «is a particularly dangerous individual. He did not hesitate to fire on the police several times to encourage his escape, in France and abroad.“says Europol.
Since the launch of the campaignMost Wantedin 2016, 120 people were arrested, including43 directlyThanks to elements from the campaign, according to Mr. Lacassin, who cites in particular the case of the Frenchman François di Pasquali, wanted for rape and arrested in 2021 in Spain, three months after being included in the Europol list.
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