An eight-handed robbery with a ram scooter and an axe, in January 2021, which left its victims, the managers of a jewelry store in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and their employees, including a pregnant woman, particularly traumatized.
The loot, estimated at nearly 500,000 euros, will never be found.
Two of the suspected robbers, including one with an already extensive criminal record, were arrested nine months later by investigators from the Paris PJ's anti-banditry brigade (BRB).
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But after 22 months of pre-trial detention, the two suspects were released on October 3, because they could not be judged detained within the time limits provided for by the Code of Criminal Procedure.
At issue, the examination of a “procedural defect”, recognized last September by the Court of Cassation, which resulted in the annulment of several procedural acts.
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