A police check, in Douai on December 31, 2020. -
FRANCOIS GREUEZ / SIPA
History does not say how long he was wanted.
Friday evening, while the police in Avignon were carrying out banal checks as part of the respect of the curfew, they arrested by surprise, a man suspected of having committed a murder in Germany.
The individual, who had difficulty expressing himself in French, had to show the crossing guards his papers.
The police then crossed his identity with the Schengen file, discovering that the motorist was the subject of a European arrest warrant for acts of murder, indicates
La Provence
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The man, aged 58, was taken into custody in the wake, then referred Saturday morning, before a magistrate of the Nîmes Court of Appeal.
He should be extradited in order to be tried across the Rhine for the charges against him.
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