The individual who, for several weeks, had been puncturing the tires of cars parked in the 7th district (our editions of Tuesday, December 7), was arrested this Friday shortly after 1 p.m. at the Denfert-Rochereau RER station (14th century).
Transferred and placed in custody at the 7th district police station, this man "without a fixed address or telephone", according to a police source, must answer for acts of degradation of private property and endangering life. other.
The interrogation continued into the evening.
At the beginning of November, the 7th arrondissement police station opened an investigation to find the person behind this mysterious epidemic of flat tires in the 7th and 16th arrondissements. The exploitation of the images filmed by the video surveillance cameras of the capital made it possible to locate "a suspect dressed in dark color", indicates a police source. During the night of Monday, November 29 to Tuesday, November 30, a team from the BAC proceeded in the VII, to the identity check of a man with suspicious behavior. No clue to confuse him, the individual was left free.
The continuation of the investigation having made it possible to establish that he was indeed the author of these degradations committed in series, a notice of search with identity photo was quickly distributed in all the Parisian police stations.
It was finally an off-duty policeman who recognized him this Friday at midday in Denfert-Rochereau.
It remains to be seen whether the man arrested was also rife in the 16th century, also struck by an epidemic of flat tires for several weeks ...
