After nine days on the run, the detainee who had escaped from the Périgueux remand center was arrested on Friday September 9 in an apartment in Toulouse, indicates France Bleu Périgord. Aged 22, the young prisoner escaped on August 31 by pushing aside the bars of his cell around 4 a.m. He then scaled the wall, leaning on metal joists installed for security work in the prison.
The young man will be transferred to Périgueux in the coming days. A judge of freedoms and detention decided this Saturday morning to imprison him in Toulouse, to execute the arrest warrant issued against him by the courts. After being transferred to Périgueux, he will be brought before the investigating judge in charge of the investigation.
He was located in Toulouse thanks to investigators from the Périgueux judicial police, explains the prosecutor of Périgueux, Solène Belaouar. Police officers from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), specializing in muscular arrests, watched the apartment for several hours before emerging to arrest him around 6 p.m., franceinfo learned.
During his escape, so as not to arouse the suspicions of the supervisors, balled up fabrics had been placed under his sheets to make believe that he was sleeping. The bars had been put back in place, and his fellow prisoner had even gone to get him a meal tray from the canteen. The supervisors only realized the deception in the afternoon.
After his escape, he was picked up by a former co-detainee who took him to Toulouse, franceinfo learned from a source close to the investigation. To find him, investigators worked on potential drop points in the city. The young man had been in detention since March at the Périgueux remand center, after five convictions for traffic offences, contempt, violence, or possession of narcotics, committed outside the Dordogne.
The judicial police continue to investigate to understand how he managed to escape. The investigating judge is also investigating the complicity from which the young man may have benefited, both from his co-detainee and from other potential accomplices outside the prison.