The body of Marwane Souidi found, a suspect arrested for “murder with acts of barbarism”

A 31-year-old man, suspected of the “murder with acts of barbarism” of a 25-year-old who has been missing since the end of September, was arrested on Monday near Rouen where the body of his victim was discovered, we learned. Saturday from a source familiar with the matter. The suspect was brought to justice on Saturday along with his companion for an indictment for “acts of torture and barbarism” and “murder”, we learned from the Evry prosecutor’s office.

The victim, Marwane Souidi, living in Lagny-le-Sec (Oise), had not heard from his family since September 21, after an evening spent with one of his friends in Arpajon (Essonne). The family had declared his disappearance in the Oise before the prosecution of Evry was seized and opened a judicial investigation for “kidnapping and forcible confinement”.

The victim was the sufferer of the suspect

The investigation is then entrusted to the PJ of Evry. A group of eight investigators gets down to business. A very close-knit group, “old-fashioned, with a real culture of crime” and both “great responsiveness” and the use of all techniques, listening in particular, to find traces of the young man , underlined the source close to the investigation. “It was on a very small signal that they were able to trace the suspect who had gone green near Rouen,” she explained. Immediately, they rushed near Rouen to challenge him.

The story, sordid, takes place in the middle of rave parties where synthetic drugs circulate in the evenings. According to the first elements of the investigation, the victim was the sufferer of the suspect, portrayed as being able to become very quickly ultra-violent.

Beaten by his executioner, Marwane Souidi died of strangulation as revealed by the autopsy of his body. For two months, the suspect will move the body, from his car to a cellar, to elevator pits. It is also in an elevator pit that the investigators discovered Thursday near Rouen his body locked in a plastic trunk. The technical and scientific police screened a total of five scenes. “Hours and hours of commitment on their part”, greeted the source close to the file.

More than half a dozen people were arrested

In this case, more than half a dozen people were arrested, in addition to the main suspect and his companion.

Marwane Souidi’s family had multiplied calls for testimony on social networks. On Saturday, she posted a message on Twitter to announce the discovery of the young man’s body.

A source close to the case stressed to AFP the importance of the involvement for days and days of investigators from the Judicial Police to solve such a case, expressing alarm at the reform in preparation. of the PJ which would undermine, according to her, such a commitment.


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