He thought he was escaping justice. The husband of a young woman found dead in Saint-Raphaël (Var) on December 24 was arrested on Saturday in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), after two weeks on the run, the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. Draguignan, stating that the man was injured during this operation.
The man, a 39-year-old Tunisian, had left Var with the couple’s three children a few days before the discovery of the lifeless body of his 31-year-old wife, also of Tunisian nationality, in their apartment in Saint-Raphaël.
The examination of the young woman’s body had “revealed possible traces of strangulation and hematomas on the face”, explained the public prosecutor of Draguignan, Patrice Camberou. Confirming an initial information from the information site News 17the magistrate specified that the arrest of the husband was carried out on Saturday around 7 p.m., in an apartment in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, by the research and intervention brigade (BRI) of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Police officers threatened with a handgun
“He greeted them by threatening them with a handgun” and the BRI fired a first shot, detailed the Bobigny prosecution. “He continued to threaten them shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and there was another shot from the BRI,” the source continued, adding that the man was “hit in the hand and in the jugular “.
Two other people were present in the apartment with the husband at the time, who were also arrested. A fourth arrest took place outside the apartment. An investigating judge has been seized of the case.