Overview
- After four days in custody, the five men were placed under formal investigation and remanded, with counts including murder in an organized group, attempted murder, criminal association, illegal weapons possession and transport of explosives.
- Four suspects were arrested overnight in a stolen car in central Lyon with numerous weapons, while a fifth was detained in an apartment used as a safe house.
- Prosecutor Thierry Dran said investigators seized many firearms, large quantities of ammunition and grenades during arrests and searches.
- The case centers on the November 12 killing of a 23-year-old in Écully, as police say the group had been lying in wait to carry out another hit.
- Investigators are probing links to Karim B. A., known as Fiston, who is detained in Colombia pending extradition, with a woman due before a judge Friday and earlier arrests of two ex-Colombian soldiers pointing to a wider network.