Friday, April 29, 2011

Murder at Basel-Mulhouse Airport - UPDATED AND BUMPED - MAN WITH MUSLIM NAME IS SOUGHT BY POLICE

UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST

The murder at EuroAirport is being reported  with the identity of  the airport tower location at Basel-Mulhouse Airport or Mulhouse Airport.  
Given the lack of details, could this be a diversion from SJS reporting?  We'll see.
Noted to date, officials are currently reviewing surveillance video as well as audio recordings of 2 separate requests for emergency help.  Possibly two different people called it in.  
This is one to watch.
MORE FROM YESTERDAY:
Failed terrorist attack? French air traffic controller stabbed to death in secure area of airport tower
(DailyMail).An air traffic controller has been found dead in a pool of blood in the control tower of a French airport this morning.
The 34-year-old was found by an airport employee in an office adjoining the control room on the tenth floor of the tower shortly after 8am at the EuroAirport outside Mulhouse, France, near the Swiss and German borders.Police sources said the married father-of-one, who has not been named yet, had been stabbed three times in the throat, lung and chest.
A murder investigation has been launched.  

The attack took place in the airport's secure zone only accessible with an identity badge, according to reporters in France.

No one has been arrested yet and know knives or weapons have been recovered. Air traffic at the airport was not affected whilst the investigation got underway.

The victim was a senior controller at the airport and was in charge of the tower. The airport in eastern France serves Basel, Switzerland, Mulhouse, France, and Freiburg, Germany. 

Read the full story here.

googlish translation of article identifying murderer
The suspect is a friend of the victim. On Friday, police issued a search warrant against Karim Ouali Aderfi, 34 years old. . .. ON sick leave for three months, Karim - or "Aderfi" as he calls himself - Ouali was seen coming out of rush control tower in which he had entered with his badge of service. . .He had been assigned at his request two years ago at Basel-Mulhouse and was "in training" the time to know the airport platform, detailed the prosecutor of Mulhouse. A period of trainnig that could create tension continues becaue the main suspect is not a novice: he had left his school in 1999-2000. Victim had 8-10 stab wounds.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

googlish translation of article identifying murderer
The suspect is a friend of the victim. On Friday, police issued a search warrant against Karim Ouali Aderfi, 34 years old. . .. ON sick leave for three months, Karim - or "Aderfi" as he calls himself - Ouali was seen coming out of rush control tower in which he had entered with his badge of service. . .He had been assigned at his request two years ago at Basel-Mulhouse and was "in training" the time to know the airport platform, detailed the prosecutor of Mulhouse. A period of trainnig that could create tension continues becaue the main suspect is not a novice: he had left his school in 1999-2000. Victim had 8-10 stab wounds.

Anonymous said...

Video report (French) appears to say more, need translation.

Anonymous said...

http://alsace.france3.fr/info/euroairport-les-suites-du-meurtre-68581010.html

“It seems that Karim Ouali was depressed and felt persecuted by his colleagues”, the source close to the investigation said. “Annoyed with his mother”, who lives in Seine-Saint-Denis, it “did not have a very stable love life”, specified this source.

Anonymous said...

The suspect, who had been assigned at his request two years ago at Basel-Mulhouse and lived in St. Louis, was "training" the time to know the airport platform, as the prosecutor.

"As he was in training, and that it was not a beginning controller, since it was out of school in 1999-2000, there could be friction," he said, when asked to possible tensions between the controllers.

http://www.courrier-picard.fr/courrier/Actualites/France/Meurtre-a-l-aeroport-de-Bale-Mulhouse-un-suspect-recherche