A 17-year-old young man, untraceable since his escape from the Bonneville remand center (Haute-Savoie) on Christmas Eve, was arrested in Germany at the end of January, the Annecy prosecutor said on Friday.
The fugitive “was arrested in Germany on January 28”, in Hesse (west of the country), prosecutor Line Bonnet told AFP, confirming information from the regional daily Le Dauphiné Libéré.
At the beginning of January, he was wrongly announced to have been arrested in Switzerland due to a translation error between the services of different countries.
A European arrest warrant issued
France had issued a European arrest warrant in connection with his escape and the armed robbery which led to his arrest in December, recalled the representative of the public prosecutor.
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In this context, “it must be presented to a German court which must rule on whether they give it to us or not” and it will then be necessary to “organize the transfer,” she detailed.
A “fairly dangerous” profile
The minor, placed in pre-trial detention on December 18 for an armed robbery, fled during a medical transfer the following Sunday.
He had taken advantage of “the opening of the sliding door of the prison vehicle so that the driver could get in and escape on foot”, shackled with one wrist handcuffed to the belt, explained Line Bonnet.
Considered “quite dangerous”, according to a source close to the investigation, he was not armed and had not benefited from any complicity, the prosecution had specified.