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On 27 April 2011, an intern air traffic controller, Karim Ouali, allegedly killed Jean Meyer, the Chief of the Air Traffic control tower of EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg. Ouali was targeted by an Interpol red notice within the month.

In December 2024, France confirmed that Ouali was on Europol's Most Wanted list.'s program and Interpol's one.

Murder

On 27 April 2011, at 07h50, an employee of the air traffic control tower discovered the body of Jean Meyer, chief of the service, in a pool of blood. After medical emergency services arrived, the police immediately suspected Karim Ouali. Some observers argue that the murder of Jean Meyer permitted the avoidance of a huge worse drama, as Karim Ouali, as a air traffic controller, had the skills and competencies to create really serious situation within the air traffic, and result of an air disaster, as probably lead to intentional airplane collisions.

Jean Meyer

Meyer was 34 years old at the time of his death, and worked as the chief of the air traffic control tower. He graduated from ÉNAC, like most of his colleagues. His body was found in a pool blood early in the morning, and police said he had been stabbed eleven times with a handmade machete.

Karim Ouali

Intern of the air traffic control tower, Karim Ouali, 35 years old, was on temporarily sick leave for four months, due to lot of psychotic troubles. He is paranoiac, thinking being discriminated by his 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 time of the Jean Meyer's murder, his badge has not been disabled by hierarchy to avoid escalation of his paranoiac behavior.

Before Meyer's death, Ouali had phoned several of his relatives, using spoofing technologies to avoid being 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.

Ten years of runaway

A few days before Meyer's death, Karim Ouali withdrew up to €25.000 in cash from his bank accounts.

His runaway is sometimes compared to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes's one, as both happened at the same period, for an exceptional 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 media 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

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2. "View Red Notices". Interpol. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
3. "Région | Meurtre à l'aéroport suspect recherché". Le Républicain Lorrain. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
4. "EU most wanted list | Europe's most wanted". eumostwanted.eu. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
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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". Le Monde (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. Fortunato, Victor (2019-10-04). "Le fugitif Karim Ouali, soupçonné de meurtre, repéré à Hong Kong". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-11.
11. "Ces ennemis publics toujours en cavale". Le Point (in French). 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
12. Gautronneau, Vincent (2019-12-15). "Karim Ouali, l'insaisissable tueur de la tour de contrôle, toujours en fuite". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-11.
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.

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