He was arrested on Wednesday a little before midnight, in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.
The man suspected of having beheaded his grandfather, Wednesday in Bollène (Vaucluse), was arrested thanks to a call to the gendarmerie.
The fugitive was apprehended without difficulty, and placed in police custody, one indicates to the Parisian within the gendarmerie, confirming an invalidation of BFMTV.
This man in his forties had been wanted since the discovery of the victim's body on Wednesday noon.
He was the prime suspect in this particularly gruesome murder.
"The terrorist trail is completely excluded, investigators favor the family circle against a background of psychiatric disorders in the alleged perpetrator," said a source close to the investigation on Wednesday.
The Vaucluse gendarmerie had posted a message on Facebook to call for witnesses.
“An important research device is currently deployed in Bollène, in the so-called Barry sector,” she said, while the teams were notably supported by the GIGN Orange antenna, a helicopter and a dog team.
Any witness who came across this man was invited to call the 17th immediately.
A week ago, on October 13, a septuagenarian was found beheaded in her house in the seaside resort of Agde, in Hérault.
A suspect was indicted for murder a few days later: the 51-year-old man was the former husband of the victim's housekeeper.
