Le Figaro Lyon
New blow to the Lyon ultra-right troops. Two people were indicted on Wednesday as part of the investigation into the attack on a conference on Gaza in November in Lyon, for which seven ultra-right activists are already being prosecuted, the city's prosecutor's office said. . These two people, arrested during a large-scale search on Monday, are accused of “participation in a group formed with a view to preparing willful violence or destruction or damage,” the prosecution told AFP. They were placed under judicial supervision. Of the eight other suspects arrested with them, only three remained in police custody at the end of the day Wednesday.
At the beginning of February, seven alleged members of the Lyon ultra-right were indicted in the same case for "criminal conspiracy", a charge punishable by five to ten years in prison, and "participation in a group formed with a view to preparing of violence or degradation. Two of them, aged around twenty, known figures of the ultra-right in Lyon, had been placed in pre-trial detention.
On the evening of November 11, dozens of people dressed in black, their faces partly masked, attempted to break down the door of a premises in Old Lyon using fireworks and iron bars, according to several witnesses. Inside, around a hundred people were following a conference by a doctor who had worked in Gaza, organized by the Palestine 69 Collective. The attack left seven injured, three of whom were transferred to hospital.
Arrest in cascades
A man close to “the ultra-right movement” was arrested the same evening near the scene, in possession of a baseball bat, brass knuckles and a mouthguard, according to the prosecution. He was immediately indicted. The use of data in his phone, video surveillance images and telephone markings allowed investigators to identify other participants.
The latest wave of arrests targeted a former treasurer of the Lyon GUD and people involved in violence on the sidelines of the CAN in 2019 in Lyon, according to information from Le
Parisien
confirmed by a source close to the matter. An ultra-right activist condemned for having participated in a punitive expedition to Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme) after the death of young Thomas in a village ball in Crépol was also arrested on Monday, we learned from the same source .
The attack on the pro-Palestinian conference was claimed on a Telegram loop of ultra-right identity and neo-Nazi groups by the “Guignol Squad”, an informal group customary for violent actions in Lyon. This action relaunched calls to dissolve small ultra-right groups active in Lyon, including Les Remparts, built on the ashes of Génération Identitaire, a collective dissolved in 2021.