Two days after giving up, under three weeks of Cavale, the police officer already accused of marital violence in the past was indicted for “murder by spouse” and incarcerated at the health prison.
Le Monde with AFP
After his surrender after three weeks of Cavale through France, the police officer Arnaud B. was indicted on Thursday, February 24, for “murder by spouse”. Suspected of mortally strangling his companion Amanda Glain, at the end of January, Arnaud B., young man with very short hair, and who appeared in black sweater and John, surrounded by three policemen in the box, will be incarcerated in prison. of health in Paris.
This peacekeeper, born in May 1992, had called the gendarmerie Tuesday to report his presence at his father, in Montmeyan (Var), where he was arrested without resistance, then placed in custody. Solicited on the sidelines of the debate on the incarceration of the suspect before a judge of the freedoms and the detention of the judicial tribunal of Paris, of which a party was held in camera, his lawyer did not wish to speak. During his custody, “he explained about the facts and his escape,” a source close to the investigation, without giving more details.
The suspect had been transferred to Paris Tuesday evening, where he was heard by the investigators of the e district of the Parisian judicial police officer. At the end of his custody, it was presented to an investigating judge who, according to the judicial source, indicted him for “voluntary homicide by spouse, concubine or partner”, an aggravating circumstance.
“May justice be rendered”
Arnaud B. was sought after January 28, the day of discovery in his apartment of the XIX e Arrondissement of Paris of his companion, Amanda Glain, aged 28 and dead by strangulation , as revealed by the autopsy.
The body of the young woman had been discovered in the bathroom, by Parisian policemen who came to the residence of the suspect, assigned to Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis. His colleagues, do not see him for his service, had given the alert.
Tuesday night, in a statement at the France Presse agency, Amanda Glain’s family asked “that justice be made for the inhuman act inflicted on the one who will forever remain their little girl and big darling sister”. She welcomed the success of the call for witnesses launched by the investigating judge who “finally allowed to put an end to this insupportable Cavale”.
It has, however, issued the “regret that neither investigator nor the public of the Republic of Paris did not show the” immediate dissemination of such an appeal, a “deficiency [which] has fatally helped to facilitate the flight of the author of the facts and to increase the suffering and fears of the relatives of Amanda “.
already accused of marital violence
The interpellation had been announced Tuesday morning by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on Twitter . The car, the weapon of service and the two chargers of Arnaud B. had been found on February 11th and 12th, in Amiens, on the car park of a fast food, after a call to witnesses launched on February 10th.
“Shortly after the facts”, according to a judicial source, the police officer had withdrawn 1,500 euros in Breteuil, in the Oise, a commune located a hundred kilometers from the capital. On Saturday, a new call to witnesses had been broadcast with two new policeman photos to try to find it.
At the same time, the Paris Police Prefect, Didier Lallement, requested an administrative investigation on any shortcomings concerning the weapon port authorization granted to the police officer. This one is known for domestic violence and psychological fragility, according to a source close to the file.
Arnaud B. had been placed in custody in October 2019 for violence on his companion of the time. He had erected an alternative to prosecutions, an awareness internship with domestic violence. On the administrative level, it had been punished with a simple warning, the lowest disciplinary sanction of the public service, not registered in the agent file.