A retired caregiver, suspected of being one of the leaders of the "
Barjols
", a heterogeneous group close to the far-right identity, was arrested on Tuesday, November 3 by the DGSI, said a close source of the case.
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According to Le Point, which revealed this arrest, it was denounced by a man who had already been arrested as part of this investigation targeting the group.
According to him, she would be "
the instigator of their projects
", writes the weekly.
Members of this small group are suspected of having wanted to commit violent action against President Emmanuel Macron.
Created in September 2017, after the election of Macron, the group was disbanded in November 2018. A total of eight people are to date indicted in this case, according to a judicial source.
Four members already indicted
In November 2018, four men, aged 22 to 62, were indicted for "
criminal terrorist association
" and unauthorized possession of weapons in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
Two other men, arrested a year later in Moselle, had also been indicted.
The investigators had precipitated the arrests when they learned that one of the men, Jean-Pierre Bouyer, retired Isère, had moved to the east of France where Emmanuel Macron was for his memorial journey on the centenary of the end of the Great War.
When he was arrested in Moselle, he was in possession of a dagger.
He hosted the “
Barjols
”
Facebook page for Isère
.
"
It is a dossier of opportunity inflated by the services
" which "
have overinterpreted inflammatory remarks by people in revolt but who had no real intention of planning an attack against the president,
" a defense lawyer confided in early October. .
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