Less than a month ago, LB, 18, stabbed another young man to death during a street brawl in Metz, a small city in northeastern France.
The next day, he and his girlfriend, identified as MS, 28, escaped through France and Spain until they reached Cádiz, from where they were going to jump to Africa, where they both have contacts.
The two were surviving in Cádiz, eating in soup kitchens and sleeping in municipal shelters, until last year he and an accomplice beat up a 42-year-old man from Cádiz, leaving his face scarred to steal a mobile phone, a pack of tobacco and some coins.
Fingerprints have now made it possible to identify LB as the fugitive sought by the French authorities for the crime of a 22-year-old boy on a pedestrian street in Metz.
The Metz crime was perpetrated by two people.
According to the French press at the time, a group of friends was celebrating a local party on July 14, when two people armed with at least one knife approached them around 1:30 a.m. and started a fight.
The TF-1 network then assured that it was a fight "between a gang of adults from Longwy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and two individuals."
The fact is that they fled helped by the partner of the alleged murderer.
The fugitives arrived shortly after in Spain, where one of them had lived here before settling in France and allegedly had contacts in several cities.
The plan was to jump to Africa, where the fugitives are from, but those responsible for the Fugitive Group of the National Police do not agree: "They had had more than enough time to take the boat, but we do not know if it was because I was afraid that they would be controlled or because in the end they were not going to leave, they were still in Cádiz”.
This time they have lived halfway between crime and homelessness, rather in "survival" mode, as the police believe.
They slept in community shelters and went to soup kitchens to survive, always giving a false identity.
This form of subsistence turned violent at ten o'clock at night on August 15, when the now detainee and a 25-year-old Moroccan citizen assaulted a person with a sharp object, making cuts on his face, for which he has required surgery. maxillofacial, and they beat him until he was practically unconscious.
The author was arrested and identified by fingerprints.
His partner has been arrested as a necessary cooperator and now they are pending their return to the neighboring country.
Just a month after the Metz assassination.