He was trying to embark for Algeria for escape arrest after killing his partner. A 44-year-old Frenchman was handcuffed in Genoa on charges of femicide, just after arriving in Italy from the municipality of Antibes, on the French Riviera, passing through the Ventimiglia border.
The arrest in Genoa
As reported by Handle, the Genoa railway police stopped him for a check, at the Brignole station. The officers had become suspicious of the fact that the 44-year-old foreigner, of Algerian origins, would have accelerated his pace towards the exit seen at the sight of the uniforms.
The nervousness shown by the Frenchman during the identification pushed the police to deepen their checks on him, discovering the European arrest warrant for femicide, issued against him on the same morning of Tuesday 14 May by the Court of Appeal of the Tribunal Judiciary of the city of Grasse (France).
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The accusation of murder of his partner
The man is accused of killing his partner in their home on the French Riviera. It would have been the same 44-year-old, on Saturday 11 May, who called for help, saying have no more news of the woman.
Upon arrival at the house in Antibes, the French authorities found the woman’s body lifeless and with numerous signs of beatings on her body, while the man unattainable by getting rid of his cell phone and losing track of himself.
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In 2022, the foreigner had already been convicted by the same Court for violence committed against his partner and the judge had subjected him to no approach to women until 25 February 2025.
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Further investigations carried out by the railway police, with the Sirene division of the International Police Cooperation Service and the Ventimiglia Police Cooperation Centre, and with the collaboration of the French police themselves, made it possible to ascertain that the man was attempting to flee to Algeria. After informing the competent judicial authority, the police took him to the Marassi prison awaiting extradition to France.
Photo source: ANSA
