Almost a week after the savage murder of a 26-year-old young man in Mons, in the Var, an individual was arrested and taken into custody on Wednesday by the Draguignan gendarmes, said Thursday, February 11 to
Figaro
Patrice Camberou, public prosecutor of Draguignan, confirming information from Var Matin.
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Unknown to the police and gendarmerie services according to the magistrate, the 25-year-old suspect was arrested late Wednesday morning in Bagnols-en-Forêt, about thirty kilometers from Mons, while he was walking on a path.
"A DNA trace found near the crime scene made the family link with the suspect then surveillance of the town and the surrounding area made it possible to locate and apprehend him"
, explained the prosecution.
The arrest was carried out by soldiers from the Observation and Surveillance Group (GOS) of the gendarmerie.
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Described by Patrice Camberou as
"
idle
and lonely
", the suspect, who was also injured in the hand during his arrest, was taken into custody in the wake.
If no motive is given at this time, the man would have recognized the facts, speaking "
of a sudden violent anger without reason
", according to the prosecution.
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On February 3, a 25-year-old young man who had just finished his engineering studies was savagely stabbed in his partner's home and in front of her.
An autopsy of the victim's body had shown
"several stab wounds in the body, face and neck".
Many gray areas still hover around this case.
Investigators from the research section and the research brigade of Draguignan are continuing their investigations.
