"
Anyway, I was waiting for you
", launched to the police the 41-year-old tagger who had been terrorizing the inhabitants of Seine-et-Marne since October with his pink tags.
More than fifteen swastika tags with the inscriptions “Biobananas” and “Charles” had been listed in recent weeks by the urban security police officers of the Melun Val de Seine agglomeration police station.
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Monday January 4, around 5 pm, the one nicknamed the "crazy tagger" was arrested in Mée-sur-Seine as he left his home "
with pink spray cans similar to those used for the tags
" , indicates the commissioner in charge of the investigation at
Le Figaro
.
According to the same source, his psychiatric condition having been diagnosed as "
incompatible with police custody
", the tagger was placed in a psychiatric hospital after confessing the facts.
"He wanted to become famous"
“
It's a cry for help.
He told us he wanted revenge and become famous.
When we got to his home, he told us he was relieved that he had finally been found.
He wanted to talk about his ill-being,
”
the commissioner
told
Figaro
.
Territorial agent on sick leave for several months, the tagger immediately explained to the police the meaning of his tags.
"Charles" refers to a person who, in the 2000s, was part of the same techno music collective as the tagger, a group called "Biobananas".
The latter regularly organized at the time of the rave-party, during which this "Charles" would have harassed the tagger, regularly making fun of him alongside a certain "Virginia", who was also the subject of a tags.
The police also noted that the tagger had filed a complaint in 2020 against this "Charles" who, according to him, tried in the 2000s to "
monitor him by infiltrating his computer system
".
Finally, with regard to swastikas, the 40-year-old explained that he had chosen this acronym "
to be sure to attract attention
".
“
It's a cry for help.
He confessed to us that he wanted revenge and become famous,
”explains the commissioner in charge of the investigation.
Melun Val de Seine agglomeration police station
Fontainebleau cemetery, a strategic choice
Frustrated to find that his tags attracted little attention, the tagger decided to rise crescendo.
“
He remembered that we had talked a lot about a desecration of a cemetery on TV.
So he wanted to do the same, telling himself that this time it was going to work
, ”says the commissioner.
Unlike other places, the choice of the Fontainebleau cemetery is far from trivial: "
He wanted revenge on his former guardian who was also part of the Biobananas group at the time
," continues the official.
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A first expertise led to him being hospitalized automatically in psychiatry, but a second should be launched to define whether the tagger, already followed by a psychiatrist, was responsible or not for his acts during the two months in which he carried out the degradations. .
Experts are trying to determine if he had stopped his treatment at the time of the tags or if he had taken his medication incorrectly.
If he is criminally responsible, the tagger will be judged after his hospitalization.
He risks up to 1 year of imprisonment for burial violation and up to 3,700 euros fine for the offense of degradation.
Apart from the Fontainebleau cemetery, several buildings have been damaged by its tags, including a nursery, an Intermarché and a school in Melun, a radar not far from Vaux-le-Vicomte, the wall of the town hall of Vaux-le-Pénil or again the churches of the villages of Ecrennes and Échouboulains.
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