He raped a disabled adult at her home in Lille in May 2009 after hitting the victim's mother.
A 36-year-old Franco-Algerian, convicted in France for rape of a vulnerable person, was arrested at the end of July in Algeria after more than three years on the run, we learned on Tuesday from a police source.
Confused by the investigation, the man had been placed in pre-trial detention before being released under judicial supervision and had presented himself free at his trial at the end of 2017. "He came at the beginning but was not present at the verdict" of 13 years of criminal imprisonment pronounced by the Assize Court of Douai, declared to AFP the commissioner Guillaume Maniglier, assistant to the head of the Central Office for the fight against organized crime (OCLCO).
Two years of fruitless research
An arrest warrant had been issued.
After two years of fruitless research, the National Fugitive Search Brigade (BNRF), attached to the OCLCO and specializing in these investigations, was seized in 2020 and a red notice was published by Interpol.
The investigations, carried out in cooperation with the Algerian authorities, confirm the presence of the fugitive in Algeria, where several of his relatives regularly go from Lille.
"We worked a lot on our habits"
“We worked a lot on his habits, his lifestyle, his entourage” in order to locate him more precisely, added the commissioner.
The man was finally arrested on July 27 by Algerian police in Hennaya, a town in the north of the country.
Algeria, which - like almost all countries - does not extradite its nationals, must now officially request the denunciation of the facts from France so that the fugitive serves his sentence on its territory.
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