Two people were indicted in Paris and placed in pre-trial detention on Friday in the investigation into the robbery of an armored van in Germany last week, bringing the number of suspects prosecuted in this case to seven, AFP has learned. from judicial sources.
Four people had been arrested and taken into custody in recent days, including a couple arrested Tuesday evening in the Lille region.
Two police custody have been lifted without prosecution at this stage, said the judicial source.
Seven people charged
Two suspects were presented Friday to the investigating magistrate in charge of this investigation.
According to a source familiar with the matter, this is the couple arrested near Lille.
"One was indicted for the heads of theft in an organized gang with a weapon, criminal association, destruction by dangerous means and concealment in an organized gang of theft
," said the same source.
The second was indicted for
"receiving property from an organized gang theft with a weapon"
, she added.
They were both placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention, according to the judicial source.
A total of seven suspects were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention after the attack on a cash transport van on the morning of January 13 in Saarlouis, a German town on the border with France.
Three of them were part of the commando, made up of several heavily armed people, who had fled, according to the close source, specifying that 860,000 euros of booty had been recovered.
Five people, aged 45 to 56, were arrested a few hours after the robbery in the Paris region.
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Among them are Abdelkrim Lho, born in 1966, and Loïc Delière, known to belong to French organized crime and to be close to the robber Antonio Ferrara, according to a source familiar with the matter.
One of the occupants of the van and a police officer were injured in the attack, during which explosions and gunshots were heard, according to the German daily Bild.
Abdelkrim Lho and Loïc Delière had been sentenced respectively to twenty-two and twenty years of criminal imprisonment accompanied by a security sentence for the robbery of a cash transport van in 2000 in Nanterre, which had cost the life of a conveyor .
