He had been wanted since Thursday by the police after the death of a young couple, aged 20, in the Deauville region (Calvados). A man was finally arrested on the night of Friday to Saturday in Pas-de-Calais, the public prosecutor of Caen told AFP Joël Garrigue.
A border police patrol spotted the suspect in Calais on Saturday at 1:40 a.m., then detailed the prosecutor in a statement. “This 34 -year -old man tried to escape the police and lost control of his vehicle who struck a wall. In a state of drunkenness and seriously injured, he was placed in police custody, “said Joël Garrigue. “At the end of his police custody, he will be the subject of a mandate to bring to organize his appearance before the investigating judge according to the methods which will be defined according to the evolution of his state health, ”continued the prosecutor.
As a reminder, the bodies of a man and a woman who disappeared on Wednesday, had been found on Thursday in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, a commune near Deauville. Since “a man in his thirties, living in the town of Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, who would have been in contact with the victims on the day of January 22” was actively sought by the national gendarmerie, had The Caen prosecutor said on Friday, adding that this man was “potentially armed and dangerous”. The gendarmerie had mobilized 160 gendarmes, a helicopter and a cynophile team from Thursday to Saturday to find the suspect.
Acts of violence
The autopsy of the deceased young man confirmed that he “presented a head trauma and traces of violent blows carried on the face” and that he “was the victim of a shot”. The autopsy of his partner will take place in “beginning of next week,” added the prosecutor. The Caen prosecution said Thursday evening ignore “the circumstances in which these two young people were killed” and the possible motivations of the double homicide. “No hypothesis is excluded,” he said. A judicial information was opened against X of the chief of murder and the investigations continue under the direction of an investigating judge.
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