The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) requested the transfer of 12 persons to the Criminal Court rather than the Assizes.”acquired the theses of the ultra-right“suspected”developed a plan of violent action“Against Emmanuel Macron in November 2018, AFP learned on Wednesday, September 7, from a source close to the investigation.
The Pnat wants these eleven men and this woman, aged 22 to 62, to have been in contact through a group called “BarjolsAccording to the final indictment signed on August 18 and discussed by AFP on Wednesday, he was tried for criminal terrorist association.
The final decision on whether or not to submit to trial, sums or corrections now rests with the trial judge. The judicial investigation began on November 6, 2018, shortly after the arrest of several associates of the radical extreme right. The investigation subsequently led to the indictment of a total of 14 individuals for criminal terrorist association, subject to restitution.
Four years of education
After nearly four years of investigation, the prosecution moved to drop the charges against the two of them. And he asked that the remaining twelve be held for criminal terrorist association, a crime tried in criminal court. Pnat accuses them of meetings, equipment research, training and contacts established with the aim of “project of violent actionagainst the head of state. Investigators decided to intervene after learning of one of the Facebook group’s administrators, Jean-Pierre Bouillet, a retiree from Isère in eastern France, where Emmanuel Macron was stationed for his centenary commemoration trip. To the great war.
In a conversation intercepted by the police, this pensioner mentioned the idea of attacking the head of state with a ceramic knife, which cannot be detected by security checks. A sheathed dagger and a Bible were found in the car he drove to the Moselle, according to the final indictment. The prosecution petitioned for his dismissal for illegally acquiring and transporting a gun. At first, he was under pre-trial detention, for several months he is free under the supervision of a judge. “This correction requested by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office acts as a semi-confession from which we conclude that the procedure is far from being as serious as it was announced at the beginning of the preliminary investigation.“, his lawyer May Olivia Ronen responded to AFP.
Source: Le Figaro
