arrest in Switzerland of the 17-year-old detainee who escaped on Christmas Eve

He will be tried in Switzerland where he was wanted for several thefts and will have to serve his sentence before being tried in France.

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View of the canton of Friborg (Switzerland), October 12, 2022. (BLANCHOT PHILIPPE / HEMIS.FR / HEMIS.FR)

The young 17-year-old inmate, who escaped on December 24, 2023, from the minors’ section of the Bonneville remand center, in Haute-Savoie during a medical extraction, was arrested on Wednesday January 3 in Switzerland , revealed France Bleu Pays de Savoie.

The young man was arrested in the act of burglary in the canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland, indicates the Annecy prosecutor’s office. He will be tried in Switzerland where he was wanted for several thefts and will have to serve his sentence before being tried in France. An extradition request will be made, we learned France Bleu Pays de Savoie with the Annecy public prosecutor, Line Bonnet-Mathis. The young man was imprisoned on Wednesday in Friborg in Switzerland.

A European arrest warrant had been issued

This inmate escaped during a medical examination on December 24. He ran away, while his wrist was still handcuffed, when he got back into the vehicle that was supposed to take him back to prison. He was imprisoned for a armed robbery committed in Sallanches on December 8.

A European arrest warrant had been issued and he was actively sought by the Bonneville company gendarmes. A flagrant investigation had been opened by the Annecy public prosecutor’s office for escape and entrusted to the Bonneville gendarmerie company, jointly seized with the Chamonix research brigade.


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