Not one, not two, but the 54-year-old foreigner had declared a total of 29 different identities and three different nationalities arrested this morning in Heraklion. The man was wanted on an Interpol arrest warrant after he had murdered a man, a store security guard, during an armed robbery in 1996.

According to the Greek Police, the man was arrested by officers of the Heraklion Sub-Directorate for the Investigation of Crimes and the Heraklion Airport Police Department.

An Interpol Bosnia and Herzegovina Interpol Red Notice for Armed Robbery and Homicide has been issued against him, and he has been subjected to the “Measure for special control of persons for public security reasons” and the “National Administrative Measure – Prohibition of Entry”. The arrested man will be taken to the Prosecutor of the Heraklion Court of Appeal.

Lionel Dumont, after the 1996 robbery, was arrested after about a year and sentenced to 20 years in prison. On 26 May 1999, he escaped from Sarajevo prison.

Since then, he remained free until 2004 when he was imprisoned in France and sentenced in 2007 to 25 years in prison. But even since then, he managed to escape from the authorities, moving around in different countries using different identification documents with many different names. He reportedly used names like Bilal, Abou, Gerald, Jacques, Antonio, and others, with surnames like Kymkal, Dimon, Hamza, Tinet, Di Karlo and others. Similarly, the documents he used declared different nationalities, presenting himself as French, Italian, and Tunisian.