A Syrian refugee was on Saturday charged with the rape and murder of a 24-year-old woman, a French public prosecutor said. The Syrian man 32, who denies the offence, was picked up Thursday in the southwestern town of Moit-de-Marsan, four days after the woman's body was discovered.
Known to police for violent behaviour, he was charged after his DNA, already held on a national register, was discovered on the victim, prosecutor Olivier Janson said. Investigators found her mobile telephone and her sim card during a search of his home. Three other men - an Algerian, a Moroccan and a Tunisian - were freed after initially being detained in connection with the case. They will be deported, however, as they were in France illegally, the prosecutor said.
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