Yvelines: a man arrested after the cutter attack on a taxi driver – CNEWS

After taking charge of a client at the Gare de Lyon in Paris last night, a taxi driver was attacked with a knife by the latter in the town of Saint-Forget (Yvelines). The individual then stole the taxi, before leaving the driver on the public highway. The suspect was arrested and placed in custody on Friday September 2. An outburst of violence. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, shortly before 2 a.m., a taxi driver in his thirties was attacked by a customer with a cutter in the town of Saint-Forget (Yvelines), learned CNEWS from source close to the case. On Friday, the suspect was arrested and taken into custody. He is a 24-year-old young man, sentenced in 2014 to twenty-two years in prison for the murder of a 14-year-old teenager in the Doubs in 2012. He was considered to have escaped, according to the Versailles prosecutor’s office. , after a day’s leave at the end of which he had not returned to his prison. The individual was arrested in Normandy, in possession of the stolen car. The gendarmes of the research section of Versailles indicated that they had found him thanks to the telephone terminals. The young man, currently in police custody, should be tried and placed in detention again.