Overview
- The new arrests took place on Tuesday in the Lyon metropolitan area and involved eight men and women detained under judge-authorized commission rogatoire who are to be presented to investigating judges.
- Nine people were already placed under formal investigation earlier in the inquiry, with seven mis en examen on 19 February and two additional suspects added in early March.
- The judicial inquiry is being pursued for homicide volontaire, violences aggravées and participation in an association de malfaiteurs.
- Investigative sources told AFP and other outlets that the eight newly arrested suspects are suspected of taking part in the rixes and other violences that day but are not accused of delivering the fatal blows that killed Quentin Deranque.
- The case began after Deranque, who was providing security for Némésis collective members at a Sciences Po Lyon event, was beaten in February and later died of severe cranial trauma, and the probe has become a high-profile, politically sensitive instruiction judiciaire that could increase scrutiny of both militant networks and how organizers police events.