Police illustration in Lyon.

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E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes

  • The suspect would have taken advantage of a leave of absence to escape from prison and chain break and enter, carrying out 14 burglaries until December 2020.

  • On December 8, the man was spotted in the 9th arrondissement and arrested with the help of the operational support group of the departmental security

  • Tried in immediate appearance for his escape, he was sentenced to eight months in prison, and must be tried later for the acts of break and enter.

Bars, restaurants, hotels, a pharmacy.

On December 8, the departmental security of the Rhône put an end to the two years on the run of a 30-year-old fugitive, escaped from the Villefranche-sur-Saône remand center and suspected of a series of burglaries in shops in the Lyon area, between 2017 and 2020, we learn from the police.

The suspect allegedly raged twice, in June 2017 and April 2018, just before his imprisonment.

Then in December 2018, he would have taken advantage of an exit permit to escape from prison.

He would then have chained the break-ins, carrying out 14 burglaries until December 2020, adds departmental security.

To enter the premises, he varied operating methods, smashing windows, breaking down doors or tampering with locks.

Thanks to the findings made on the burglary scene and by re-tracking the traces left by the suspect, the investigators became certain that it was one and the same suspect.

Tried for escape

But it took them months to locate it.

Until December 8, when the man was spotted in the 9th arrondissement and arrested with the help of the


operational support

group

of the departmental security.

The fugitive, placed in police custody, admitted his participation in the burglaries.

The man, who was also the subject of two search warrants for similar facts in Béziers and Lyon, was presented to the prosecution on December 10.

Judged in immediate appearance for his escape, he was sentenced to eight months in prison, adds the Lyon police.

He must be tried later for the acts of break and enter.

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