An American suspected of a double murder committed at the end of July in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne) was extradited by the American authorities and landed in France on Friday before being indicted and imprisoned, a announced the Créteil prosecutor's office in a press release.
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This man is the ex-husband of a woman found dead in her apartment on July 29, shot dead.
She was in the company of another 42-year-old man, also shot, whom she had met via an application ten days earlier, as revealed Thursday Le Parisien.
The suspect, a 45-year-old computer scientist, had lived apart from his wife since 2015 and had resided in Colorado since that date.
It is the criminal brigade which led the investigation and carried out "
very numerous and very technical investigations
" according to the prosecution, which made it possible to identify the ex-spouse as the main suspect.
He was arrested on August 18 at his home by the American authorities and "
consented to his handing over to the French authorities,
" said the prosecution.
Still according to the same source, he exercised his right to silence.
He is the father of two children he had with the victim writes
Le
Parisien
.
According to the daily, it was the sister of the suspect who put the investigators on his trail by revealing that he was in France at the time of the facts.
According to a judicial source, the murder weapon was partially found in spare parts in the Marne.