Two men, one residing in Nice, the other in Dole, were arrested by investigators from the Dijon judicial police. They are suspected of having a link with the offenses that occurred from June 12 to 14. The Dijon public prosecutor indicates that they have been indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.
Press release from the Dijon public prosecutor of September 17, 2020:
Following the various offenses committed on the nights of Friday 12, Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June 2020, the DIJON prosecutor’s office on Saturday 20 June 2020 opened a judicial investigation entrusted to two chief investigating judges, in particular of:
– Criminal association for the preparation of offenses punishable by 10 years imprisonment
– Participation in a group with a view to preparing for violence or damage
– Violence aggravated by three circumstances (weapon, reunion, because of the belonging, real or supposed of the victims, to an ethnic group, a nation or an alleged race)
– Aggravated degradation.
Six people from the so-called “Chechen” community were indicted between June 20 and July 3, 2020. Three were placed under judicial supervision and three were placed in detention. They had, moreover, appealed against their imprisonment to the investigating chamber of the DIJON Court of Appeal. This confirmed their continued detention by three decisions of July 1 and 8, 2020, and September 16, 2020.
Six other people were taken into police custody between July 7 and 9, 2020, for aggravated violence. These are the acts of violence which seem to be at the origin of this case and which had been committed during the night of June 9 to 10, 2020 against victims from the “so-called Chechen community”, by a group of people “designated as of Maghrebian origin”. These are facts which had not been reported to the police, which had not been the subject of a complaint and for which no investigation was therefore possible. Three of these people were presented on Thursday and Friday 9 and 10 June 2020 to one of the investigating magistrates in charge of this case and had been placed in pre-trial detention.
Since then, the investigation has continued on the basis of letters rogatory from the investigating magistrates. Two people from the so-called “Chechen” community were arrested simultaneously on September 15 and 16, 2020 in BRON (69) and DRAVEIL (91) by investigators from the DIPJ of DIJON, with the support of the DIPJ of LYON and the central office for the fight against organized crime.
These two people were presented on Thursday, September 17, 2020 to one of the investigating magistrates in charge of this case.
It’s about :
– of a 30-year-old man, living in Nice, never convicted but placed under judicial supervision within the framework of another judicial investigation opened for acts of criminal association and fraud in an organized group in particular. He was indicted for criminal conspiracy with a view to preparing crimes punishable by 10 years ‘imprisonment, violence aggravated by three circumstances (weapon, reunion, because of the victims’ real or supposed membership of a ethnicity, a nation or an alleged race), participation in a grouping with a view to preparing for violence or degradation and aggravated degradation.
– a 30-year-old man, domiciled in Dole, already convicted 7 times for relatively old facts. He was indicted for criminal association for the preparation of offenses punishable by 10 years imprisonment, participation in a group for the preparation of violence or degradation and aggravated violence due to the origin of the victim.
They were remanded in custody by the liberty and detention judge, in accordance with the referral to the investigating judge and the prosecution’s requisitions.
Eric Mathais, public prosecutor.
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