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Two men sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for rape in a meeting were arrested on Tuesday in Montpellier by the National Brigade for the Search for Fugitives (BNRF) and the BRI in Montpellier, Europe 1 learned from a police source. They had been on the run since December 10.
That day, when they appeared free before the Assize Court of Gard for a rape in a meeting committed in August 2014, the two men, aged 24 and 28, had taken advantage of the lunch break to slip away discreetly from the Nîmes courthouse before the verdict comes down.
"Present them simultaneously to justice"
"This is the kind of investigation that is necessarily more difficult than normal," commissioner Jacques Croly Labourdette, head of the National Fugitive Research Brigade, told Europe 1. "The two fugitives were no longer together. However, we wanted to arrest them simultaneously to present them simultaneously to justice. After two months of investigation and a substantial investment, we were able to trace the two individuals and proceed in two different places to their arrest. "