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The Jean Meyer murder is a French criminal case happened on the 27th of April 2011, when an intern air traffic controller, Karim Ouali, is suspected to have assassinated Jean Meyer, the Chief of the Traffic control tower, of the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg. He then prepares it's escape using lot of cleverness by doing it, and is targeted by an Interpol red notice within the month then.

In December 2024, France confirms his "most wanted and dangerous" persons in the world, via the Most wanted Europol's program and Interpol's one.

Murder

On 27th of April 2011, at 07h50, one of the employees of the air traffic control tower discovers the body of Jean Meyer, chief of the service, in a pool of blood. After medical emergency services arrival, policemen suspects immediately Karim Ouali of being the author. Some observers argues that the murder of Jean Meyer, permitted to avoid a huge worse drama, as Karim Ouali, as a air traffic controller, had the skills and competencies to create real serious situation within the air traffic, and result of an air disaster, as probably lead to intentional airplane collisions.

Missed terror attack

Several clues makes investigators thinking that Karim Ouali would have attempted to make a terrorist attack, and his chief surprised him preparing it, as a mobile of Ouali for killing Meyer to avoid him transmit the alert :

• The suspect withdrawal all money on it's bank account
• He sent a very violent letter to lot of his colleagues, with three of them named into it.
• He was temporarily suspended since few months, and his presence at the tower control wasn't normal, as he could prepare a intentional serious situation such as the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision
• The letter sent to his colleagues argues that he tried to make a massacre at his workplace, and names both OBL and 9/11.

Jean Meyer

Wikidata: Q131418987

The victim, 34 years old, is the chief of the air traffic control tower. Graduates from ÉNAC like most of it's colleagues, his body is found in a pool blood early in the morning, police saying he has been killed of eleven stab wounds with a handmade machete.

Karim Ouali

Wikidata: Q131418941

Intern of the air traffic control tower, Karim Ouali, 35 years old, is in temporarily sick leave since four months, due to lot of psychotic troubles. He is paranoiac, thinking being discriminated by it's colleagues due to his algerian origins. Graduate from the ÉNAC, he is the landlord of an apartment whom gives him €1200 per month, in addition of his monthly net salary of €5500. At the moment of the Jean Meyer's murder, his badge has not been disabled by hierarchy to avoid escalation of his paranoiac behavior.

His personality is among most important clues in the investigation, as he is fascinate by the Joker, with others troubles writings (antisemitism for example) of hundred pages are found in his apartment. He also thinks being followed and spyied by his colleagues, and there are so many objects on the floor of his accommodation that investigators hardly see the ground of it. Since the murder happened, the suspect is on the runaway.

Few times before the crime, he phoned to several of his relatives, using spoofing technologies to do not be recognized. He was considered as "embarrassing" behavior from his colleagues, his chief was although the most empathic to him, trying to find solution about his paranoiac situation.

Leave of Europe

The run of Karim Ouali is qualified as "relevant case" by investigators, outside of Europe, as the suspect took lot of precautions to send policemen to wrong lead :

• He ordered a France to Germany flight ticket, that he intentionally never used
• He let his personal cell phone powered on and connected to cellular service, putting it inside a package he made transmitted by post to Switzerland, while phone was still on and connected to service, as policemen then chase it on the wrong location by follow it's geolocation
• He handily modified the "O" on his passeport to make it looks like as a "Q", to make "Quali" instead of "Ouali", to traveled under fake identity
• Althrough his personal car is found quickly, he rent a car under a fake name, car found at Bron, with inside a USB key containing photos of him, but also a book of "Éloge de la fuite (fr)" (Praise of runaway) and the artisanal machete used for the crime. That vehicle has been found seven months after the events.

Ten years of runaway

Few days before the crime, Karim Ouali withdrawn up to €25.000 of his bank accounts, in cash. He left Europe less than a month after it. He is actively searched by the investigators, who firstly thought he was in South America or in Maghreb. He is identified in Asia in 2018, by a local Chinese police information from a procedure of 2014. Then, in 2021, he is definitely identified by French policemen who found him on a online dating site.

His runaway is sometimes compared to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes's one, as both happens at the same period, for a very exceptional time of duration (ten years), especially for the case of the suspect being known as "alive" after ten years (for Karim Ouali).

Since 2018 police information, plus 2021 when he has been identified on a dating website, it permitted to medias to broadcast more this case, as the suspect get a new life, as married and father of a son, since his runaway. This criminal case is still huge less known than the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes's one, whom get huge bigger attention of medias.

Located abroad and stagnation of international cooperation

In 2021, The french policers discovered the suspect on a dating website, at Hong-Kong. Few years ago, in 2018, they almost fall of their chairs by learning the Hong-Kong police arrested him, and detained him (Karim Ouali) for a month due to the fake identity used to travel ("Karim Quali" instead of "Karim Ouali"), but released him, having no charge on him for local record. As even with a red notice from Interpol (here) and Europol (here), Hong-Kong police doesn't proceed extradition order due to very complicated diplomatic relation between France and China, who are qualified as "chaotic" by some french medias.

References :

1. "Les huit ans de cavale de Karim Ouali, un tueur présumé dérangé et méticuleux". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
2. "View Red Notices". www.interpol.int. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
3. "Région | Meurtre à l'aéroport suspect recherché - Le Républicain Lorrain". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
4. "EU most wanted list | Europe's most wanted". eumostwanted.eu. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
5. "View Red Notices". www.interpol.int. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
6. "Assassinat de Jean Meyer : pourquoi le "Joker" est toujours en cavale". www.rtl.fr (in French). 2024-01-29. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
7. "Les huit ans de cavale de Karim Ouali, un tueur présumé dérangé et méticuleux" (in French). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
8. "Affaire Jean Meyer (2/2) : meurtre à la tour de contrôle". www.podcast24.fr. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
9. "Affaire Jean-Meyer : pourquoi Karim Ouali, surnommé "le Joker", a-t-il tué son supérieur au milieu d'une tour de contrôle ?". www.rtl.fr (in French). 2024-06-20. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
10. à 08h40, Par Victor Fortunato Le 4 octobre 2019 (2019-10-04). "Le fugitif Karim Ouali, soupçonné de meurtre, repéré à Hong Kong". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
11. "Ces ennemis publics toujours en cavale". Le Point (in French). 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
12. à 18h59, Par Vincent Gautronneau Le 15 décembre 2019 (2019-12-15). "Karim Ouali, l'insaisissable tueur de la tour de contrôle, toujours en fuite". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
13. "Faits divers. Karim Ouali, le tueur de l'EuroAirport, serait toujours à Hong Kong". www.lalsace.fr (in French). 2021-06-26. Retrieved 2024-12-11.