Police illustration in Lyon.
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E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes
The collaboration between the Swiss and Lyon police had made it possible to put an end to his 24-hour run on Friday evening.
The 32-year-old man, suspected of having killed his wife with a hammer in Lyon on the night of March 4 to 5, was taken into custody in Switzerland,
Le Progrès
reported on
Tuesday.
It was there that the suspect went by train after fleeing from the family home on rue Saint-Eusèbe, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, leaving his two children alone with their dead mother.
That night, the eldest had managed to contact his aunt via social networks and the latter had alerted the police.
A planned extradition request
The investigators of the criminal brigade of urban security had then mobilized to find the trace of the fleeing father, located the day after the murder in a hairdressing salon in Geneva where he was trying to change his appearance.
The man, of Algerian origin, was finally arrested in a hotel near the station, as part of an international arrest warrant.
An extradition request should be made to the Swiss authorities, adds the regional daily, so that the suspect can be imprisoned and then tried in France.
The latter, convicted in 2017 in a case of lack of insurance, was not known to justice for acts of violence.
"If certain difficulties within the couple had been able to give rise to mediation in 2015, since that date no complaint or procedure had been brought to the attention of the police or justice", said Friday the prosecutor of Lyon .
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