Morocco: Man suspected of murder in France arrested
A man wanted for fleeing trial on attempted murder charges in France in March 2023 and suspected of having since killed a father with a stray bullet near a trading post in eastern France has been arrested in Morocco , judicial sources told AFP on Monday.
The man, Sahbi El Asraoui, 26, was arrested in Marrakesh last Friday and extradition proceedings are underway, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch told AFP. The suspect had been wanted since March 8, 2023, after he fled during the negotiations of his trial, where he was sentenced to seven years in prison for seriously wounding a thirty-year-old with five bullets in the sensitive Planoise district of Besançon in 2020 ( East).
According to the Besançon prosecutor’s office, Sahbi El Asraoui then accidentally targeted this man when he wanted to target a drug dealer with whom he had a dispute. “Since then, he has continued to commit misdeeds while he was wanted,” Besançon prosecutor Étienne Manteaux told AFP.
Since his escape, he has been suspected of being involved in shootings in which two people were injured, also in Planoise, in June 2023, as well as in violence outside a nightclub near Besançon in November 2023. Sahbi El Asraoui was also charged with murder Year 2023 wanted Dijon (East), on the night of November 25th to 26th, 2023, a 55-year-old father, who was killed by a stray bullet.
