The man suspected of murdering a homeless man in Lyon and several attempted homicides in France and the Netherlands has been indicted and remanded in custody, the Evry public prosecutor’s office told AFP on Saturday.

Arrested on Tuesday evening at Toulon station (Var), the man was “charged with attempted murder“Friday evening for “acts committed in Evry on October 23“said Grégoire Dulin, public prosecutor in Evry.

DNA analysis confirms link between cases

On Friday, genetic analyses had confirmed a link between the murder of a homeless man in Lyon and a similar attempted homicide in Evry, the Lyon public prosecutor’s office said on Friday. “Genetic analyses carried out as part of the investigation opened by the Lyon public prosecutor’s office into the murder of a homeless man have established a link with the events being investigated by the Evry public prosecutor’s office.“the public prosecutor’s office told AFP. The Lyon public prosecutor’s office was “relinquish this investigation to the Evry public prosecutor’s office in the coming days, in the interests of the proper administration of justice”.“.

The suspect in these two cases was arrested on Tuesday evening at Toulon station (Var) after the attack on a young woman aboard a train travelling in the south of France. At the time of his arrest, he presented himself as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). In addition to the murder in Lyon and the attempted homicide in Evry, investigators are looking into his role in several attacks carried out with a similar modus operandi in Dijon, Strasbourg and Rotterdam.

Total incapacity to work for 45 days

In Lyon, the body of a homeless man of Moldavian nationality was found on Monday morning near Perrache station, with a large head wound and a cinder block at his side. In Evry, a man was struck in the face on the forecourt of the Evry-Courcouronnes station on October 23 while he was asleep. Seriously injured, the victim was given 45 days’ total incapacity for work.