Overview
- A French judge has placed Taha Oualidat under formal investigation for murder accompanied or followed by another crime, namely rape.
- Investigators report CCTV shows him withdrawing €400 with Philippine’s bank card shortly after she vanished.
- He was arrested in Geneva on September 24, 2024, three days after the body was found partially buried in the Bois de Boulogne.
- Following his 2024 release from prison, he was under an order to leave France, moved from administrative detention to a hotel assignment he skipped, with expulsion blocked without a Moroccan laissez-passer.
- Reporting details a prior 2019 rape for which he was incarcerated and says he later posed as an unaccompanied minor to obtain papers more quickly.