2023-08-28 17:41:48
The man suspected of having shot Youness, 20, on the night of Friday to Saturday, is a 19-year-old Houplinois unfavorably known to the police and justice for acts of narcotics, theft, assault or even burglary, report The voice of the North. “He is known as the white wolf in the Armentiérois sector”, confides a police source.
Monday morning, he was still under a European arrest warrant and actively sought on each side of the border by the Belgian and French police, because considered by the police to be armed, the weapon of the homicide not having been found at the scene of the tragedy.
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A “complicated” investigation
The day of the attack, the suspect fled, first by car before hitting a pole, then, cornered along the Lys, running towards the nearby canal where he would have dived to cross the border. But this Monday around 4 p.m., the French firefighters were asked for a body floating in the Lys at the height of the border bridge between Comines France and Comines Belgium.
The body of a young man whose description matches the suspect was fished out shortly before 5 p.m. and handed over to the Belgian authorities. The place was blocked to traffic for nearly two hours.
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