Overview
- Dominique Delattre, 64, was detained in the suburbs of Seville late in June and is held under a European arrest warrant pending transfer to France and placement in Montpellier for further legal action.
- Investigators traced a telephone line linked to a close associate which led them to his location and to officers who identified him in person while he lived under a false identity.
- Authorities say he worked in a local restaurant and was recognized partly by his French accent, a break that followed Europol publicity and long-running police monitoring.
- Delattre was convicted in 1997 for a violent attack on a cash-in-transit van that left a convoy guard seriously injured and escaped Nîmes prison in August 2000 using rope ladders and outside accomplices.
- Officials credit sustained cross-border cooperation and Europol’s updated signalement in 2024 for maintaining the hunt, and the arrest follows a pattern of recent international captures of French fugitives.