A man was arrested overnight from Saturday to Sunday and taken into custody, five days after the stabbing death of a 19-year-old in Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise), a- we learned from the Pontoise public prosecutor’s office and from a police source.
The 23-year-old suspect was arrested in the neighboring department of Hauts-de-Seine, the police source told AFP. Val-d’Oise departmental security investigators managed to locate him when he had been wanted since Wednesday, following the homicide that occurred in the middle of the street in Garges-lès-Gonesse, north of the Paris region. .
A rally in memory of the victim
Around 5 p.m. near the Arc-en-Ciel shopping center, a 19-year-old man had been stabbed in the chest. Cared for by the emergency services when he was in an absolute emergency, he died at the Gonesse hospital center.
The suspect is the brother of the victim’s girlfriend, a source familiar with the investigation said on Sunday. According to another source familiar with the matter, a “love dispute” was the cause of the attack. However, the prosecution has not confirmed this hypothesis at this stage of the investigations. A rally in memory of the victim and in support of his relatives brought together more than a hundred people on Saturday in this city.