A ninth person was indicted on Friday and placed in pre-trial detention as part of the investigation into the violence that occurred from June 12 to 15 in Dijon, AFP learned from a judicial source. He is a 25-year-old man living in Dijon, already convicted and also under judicial supervision in the context of another case, said the prosecution. He was indicted for violence in meetings and repeat offenses.
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He is part of a group of six people who had been taken into police custody since Tuesday: two were charged on Thursday and the other three were released for lack of charges to charge them, the prosecutor said. the Republic in Dijon, Éric Mathais, in a press release.
These indicted are suspected of having been the source of violence, by persons " designated as of North African origin ", on the night of June 9 to 10 in Dijon, " against victims from the "Community known as Chechen" ", according to the prosecution.
Eleven people were sentenced
This attack had triggered reprisals by Chechens against members of the Maghreb community, from June 12 to 14 in the Grésilles district, then, on June 15, urban violence in the same district as well as in Chenôve, in the near suburbs. Images of people brandishing weapons, including some fake ones, had toured social networks, shocking an otherwise reputed city. In total, with this new indictment, nine people are being prosecuted in this case.
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In the same investigation, eleven people were condemned at the end of June for drug trafficking or " crime of participation with a weapon in a crowd by a person deliberately concealing his face ", following searches and arrests triggered at the following these troubles. At the same time, in the other investigation surrounding the alleged Chechen reprisals, four of them were indicted in mid-June.
On a Friday morning visit to Dijon, Prime Minister Jean Castex, accompanied by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, assured that he would " never tolerate this kind of ultra-violent behavior ", saying he wanted to deliver " a message of great firmness "