Moroccan killer of French student (19) should have been in prison
There is outrage in Paris and far beyond over the death of a 19-year-old student.
The young woman was found dead Saturday near a walking path barely 100 meters from her university in Paris. Her body was half-buried and shows “signs of abuse and injuries,” according to police sources. The lifeless body was located in the Bois de Boulogne, near the Université Paris-Dauphine where the young Frenchwoman was studying. Four days later, a suspect was arrested in Switzerland. The suspect is a 22-year-old Moroccan who had already been sentenced to 7 years in prison for a 2019 rape. However, he was released in early September due to an administrative blunder.
The third-year Economics and Financial Engineering student was recovered after going missing for 24 hours. Volunteers decided to look for the student in the Bois de Boulogne since that was where her cell phone was last spotted. After only 15 minutes, friends and family members made the gruesome discovery.
The Moroccan suspect was already known to French courts and had a so-called “OQTF” behind his name (Obligation de quitter le territoire français) with a 10-year ban from entering France. He was arrested in Geneva. According to initial findings, the girl was murdered Friday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne. Her killer returned the next day to bury her.
In 2019, the Moroccan perpetrator had already raped a 23-year-old student on a forest path in Taverny, France. On remand, two years later, in October 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in prison by the juvenile court. However, on June 20, 2024, he was suddenly released from prison and placed in an administrative detention center (CRA) in Metz, France, after spending nearly five years in prison. Since perpetrator Taha O. had an obligation to leave the territory, which he had not appealed, it was decided to place him under house arrest in a hotel, under the supervision of the Directorate General for Foreigners in France (DGEF). But he was never checked in there. He immediately disappeared off the radar after his release and thus now committed another heinous act.
(SR for Tagtik/Source: BFMTV - Le Figaro - HLN - TF1/Illustration picture: Unsplash)