Yesterday, Tuesday, a 22-year-old Moroccan was arrested in Geneva. He is suspected of having raped and murdered a 19-year-old student near Paris last week.
The ‘individual case’ is explosive because he is a convicted rapist who is obliged to leave the country. He had already raped at least one woman five years ago, was ordered to leave the country and sentenced to prison.
He was released from prison in June and taken into custody pending deportation. However, a judge ordered his release on September 3, stating that he only had to report to the authorities. He placed him under house arrest in a hotel in the French department of Yonne, which is overseen by the Directorate General for Foreigners in France.
The next day, Morocco sent the French authorities authorisation to deport him. But this no longer interested the North African. He also did not report to the authorities as requested by the judge. The day before the murder, however, the man was put on the police’s wanted list.
The French student Philippine had been missing since Friday before it became certain on Saturday that she had been murdered. The perpetrator had buried the body in the Bois de Boulogne to the west of Paris.
According to Le Figaro, the prime suspect, Taha O., entered France from Spain in 2019 at the age of 17 on a tourist visa. The social services industry then got to work: he was quickly taken into care by the youth welfare office. This did not prevent him from raping a 17-year-old girl in the same year. After his release from prison this summer, it was only a few days before he struck again. And then murdered his victim.
After the crime, he fled to Switzerland, but could be located using his mobile phone. He was finally arrested in Geneva yesterday. An extradition request to France is in preparation, according to Le Figaro.
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