The investigations targeting alleged members of the "
Barjols
", a group close to the identity far right, suspected of having planned an attack against Emmanuel Macron in 2018, have been completed, AFP learned on Friday June 3 from sources close to the 'investigation.
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In total, fourteen people are indicted in this case, according to one of these sources.
The anti-terrorism magistrate informed the parties of the end of the investigations on Wednesday.
It is now up to the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat) to take its requisitions, then to the examining magistrate to order or not a trial.
The judicial investigation was opened shortly after the arrest on November 6, 2018 of several sympathizers of the radical far right, most of them in contact via a Facebook page "
Les Barjols
", a heterogeneous group created after Macron's election. in June 2017. Four suspects, aged 22 to 62, were then indicted for "
criminal terrorist association
and unauthorized possession of weapons in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
A ceramic knife to pass security checks
The investigators had decided to intervene after learning that one of the administrators of the Facebook group, Jean-Pierre Bouyer, a retiree from Isère, had traveled to the east of France where Emmanuel Macron was for his memorial journey on the centenary of the end of the Great War.
In a conversation intercepted by the police, this pensioner had mentioned the idea of attacking the head of state with a ceramic knife, which cannot be detected by security checks.
During his arrest in Moselle, he was in possession of a dagger.
“
This is a file that has been open for almost four years, in which we have multiplied the indictments to compensate for the lack of material elements.
We are waiting to see if the prosecution will have the honesty to recognize that this instruction did not give them the evidence they were hoping
for, ”said his lawyer, Me Olivia Ronen, to AFP.
The investigations then led to the indictment of other suspects, including two men, arrested a year later in Moselle, then a retired nursing assistant, suspected of being one of the leaders of the “
Barjols
”.