He had been actively wanted for more than two months.
It was finally this Monday, a few hours after his last two descents, that the "serial tagger" who raged in the region of Melun and Fontainebleau was identified and arrested in front of his home in Mée-sur-Seine.
The 41-year-old man, unknown to the police, was taken into police custody.
About fifteen degradations in the Melun region
Pink swastikas, often accompanied by the first name "Charles" and an enigmatic "Biobananas".
Since last October 27, the Melun sector has been regularly the target of a tagger.
After the Robert-Schuman youth space in Melun, he attacked the Jules-Ferry school, the war memorial, the station tunnel, but also a footbridge or even the automatic radar of the A5B. in Vert-Saint-Denis.
But it was above all one of his last misdeeds that hit the headlines at the end of December when he attacked the Fontainebleau cemetery, where 67 graves were vandalized on the night of December 27 to 28.
He then smeared the Les Dauphins crèche in Melun the next day, as well as the town hall of Vaux-le-Pénil last Sunday.
Melun, December 29, 2020. The metal curtain of the Les Dauphins nursery has also been tagged in pink.
LP / Sylvain Deleuze.
The investigation opened for "degradation of graves" was finally recovered by the police of the urban security of the police station of Melun Val de Seine, already in charge of the various degradations committed in the Melun area.
Police officers who were also seized by the prosecutor's office of Melun of the facts which occurred Monday in the gendarmerie zone.
This time, two churches have been tagged in Ecrennes and Echouboulains.
Motivations still unclear
These will be his last outings.
In the afternoon of Monday, supported by the gendarmes, and also by the police officers of the departmental security, the investigators manage to identify the man they have been looking for for weeks.
Identification confirmed by video surveillance, which filmed the suspect's car near Echouboulains.
Very quickly, a surveillance system was then set up in front of the residence of the forty-something.
Around 10 p.m., the latter went out and was immediately arrested.
On him, the police find colored bombs identical to those used by the tagger… The investigation continues to find out his motivations in particular.
