A man suspected of having participated in the homicide of another man in Germany in April, during a narcotics transaction, was arrested in Seine-Saint-Denis by the French judicial police, AFP learned on Monday September 19 from a police source.
The man, of Portuguese nationality and aged in his twenties, was arrested Thursday in a youth hostel in Bobigny, Guillaume Lacassin, head of the Fugitive Research Brigade (BNRF) told AFP. depends on the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO).
“
Exchange of gunfire
”
He is suspected of having participated in a homicide in Stuttgart on April 14.
"
During a narcotics transaction, the sellers tried to fool the buyers by replacing cocaine with sugar
," explained Commissioner Lacassin.
“
There was an exchange of gunfire.
The buyer was shot and stabbed.
He died on the spot
,” he added.
The alleged perpetrators, all of Portuguese nationality
,
“
had
” been quickly identified“, but had fled, said Guillaume Lacassin.
Read alsoCrack trafficking in Paris: how do the police track dealers?
The man arrested in Bobigny, "
pretty well integrated into the Portuguese crime community
" and suspected of other offenses in Europe, was found thanks to "
investigation work, in particular on telephony
", detailed the policeman .
After his arrest he was presented in Paris to a magistrate of the general prosecutor's office and imprisoned pending his handing over to the German authorities in the coming days.
