This is undoubtedly one of the greatest fears of a lambda city dweller in transport. At the heart of the Cité Université station in Paris, Friday at 9:30 a.m., a 52-year-old woman was “thrown onto the tracks” by a man. The latter was taken into custody for murder, said a police source and the prosecution.
According to a police source, the victim was on the platform of the RER B heading north when she was “violently” pushed onto the tracks, “for no apparent reason”. The woman got up but could not avoid the train, which hit her and fatally injured her, according to the prosecution. The victim is a 52-year-old woman of Algerian nationality, the police source said.
Man arrested for theft
The man suspected of the facts fled. Arrested for shoplifting in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) by a patrol of the anti-crime brigade at 3:40 p.m., he confessed to being “the author of the events that occurred (the) morning”, indicated the wooden floor. The viewing of the CCTV images of the RER station made it possible to establish that he physically corresponded to the perpetrator, the same source pointed out.
He was placed in police custody as part of an investigation opened for assassination and entrusted to the 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police, said the prosecution. The Cité universitaire station was evacuated immediately after the incident and remained closed to users for several hours for the purposes of the investigation. Traffic was partially interrupted and then remained very disrupted all day. It was “restored on the whole line” at the end of the afternoon, according to a tweet published around 6:30 p.m. on the RER B account.