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Attempted murder by two spies of the DGSE: two new indictments

2020-08-05T11:52:24.877Z


One of them concerns a third soldier attached to the General Directorate of External Security.The circle seems to close on the two French spies suspected of attempted murder. Two men were indicted in this investigation for which the two suspects linked to the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE) were already imprisoned, according to an announcement from the Paris prosecutor's office on Wednesday. In total, five suspects, including three soldiers attached to the French spy servi...


The circle seems to close on the two French spies suspected of attempted murder. Two men were indicted in this investigation for which the two suspects linked to the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE) were already imprisoned, according to an announcement from the Paris prosecutor's office on Wednesday.

In total, five suspects, including three soldiers attached to the French spy service, are now prosecuted in this investigation. Four of them are remanded in custody. According to a source familiar with the matter, the third soldier arrested was placed under judicial supervision.

The case started on July 24 with the arrest in Créteil (Val-de-Marne) of two men, aged 28 and 25, assigned to the specialized parachute training center of Saran (Loiret), which depends on the DGSE. Reported by a local resident, they were then in a stolen vehicle and in possession of several weapons, including a revolver and several army knives.

A targeted fifty-something

They "seemed to be preparing to carry out a criminal project to the detriment of a 54-year-old woman," said the prosecution in a statement. A third suspect, working in the field of private security, was arrested two days later and then in turn imprisoned.

Last week, two other men, including a soldier also attached to the Saran center, were in turn arrested and indicted on Monday for "complicity in attempted murder in an organized gang" and "participation in an association of criminals in view of the commission of these crimes and offenses punishable by 10 years of imprisonment ”.

One of them was also for "concealment in an organized robbery" and the other for "transport, acquisition, possession of category B weapons in assembly".

Clandestine operations

The center to which the three soldiers are attached is one of the three in France of the action service of the DGSE, in charge of the clandestine operations made famous by the successful series “Le Bureau des Légendes”. The other centers are based in Quelerm, near Brest, and l'Esplira-de-l'Agly (Pyrénées-Orientales).

In September 2018, two former members of this action service had been in the crosshairs of the justice system as part of an investigation into a plan to assassinate a Congolese opponent, General Ferdinand Mbaou, a refugee in France in 1997.

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These two ex-agents were then indicted in Lyon for "criminal association" and "possession of explosives". But, in March 2019, the body of one of them was found, riddled with bullets, in a parking lot in Savoie.

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