22-year-old suspect arrested in Switzerland

A man suspected of killing Philippine, a 19-year-old student, whose body was found buried Saturday in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, was arrested Tuesday, September 24 in Switzerland, franceinfo learned from a source close to the investigation, confirming information from the Actu 17 website. According to the website, the individual is 22 years old and was arrested in Geneva.

The suspect, of Moroccan nationality, is known to the French justice system for a rape case dating from 2019, when he was a minor, and for which he had been convicted. in October 2021. He was released, at the end of his sentence, last June, the Paris prosecutor’s office told franceinfo. The events took place in a wood in Taverny (Val d’Oise), and he has since been registered in the file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offences. The young man was also subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). An extradition request will be sent to the Swiss authorities without delay, the prosecution also reported.

The 19-year-old woman disappeared late Friday afternoon. She had been last seen at Paris-Dauphine University at 2 p.m. She was then due to go to her parents’ house in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Philippine’s relatives had quickly organized themselves and had posted missing persons notices everywhere, including on the internet. The Sorority app, “mutual aid community”said to have broadcast “a search notice following her worrying disappearance to support her loved ones and try to find her as quickly as possible”.