He will not have remained long in French prisons. A 29-year-old man, suspected of the murder of a 32-year-old woman and arrested in mid-December in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), will be handed over to Italian justice within ten days, we learned Thursday from his lawyer.
This Tunisian, detained since his arrest under a European arrest warrant, “declared himself in agreement with the principle of returning to Italy”, indicated Maître Dominique Bergmann, at the end of a hearing before the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Colmar. “Given this agreement, he will be taken to the Modena region no later than within ten days,” the council added.
On the morning of November 18, the charred body of Alice Neri, 32, mother of a child, was found in the trunk of a burnt-out car, in the Fossa district of the municipality of Concordia sulla Secchia, in the province of Modena (northern Italy). The suspect, domiciled in the Peninsula, “would be an acquaintance of the victim”, had indicated in mid-December a spokesperson for the Zonal Directorate of the Judicial Police (DZPJ) East.
Before the Colmar Court of Appeal on Thursday, the man was not questioned on the charges against him.