Overview
- Investigators from SDPJ 92 and the Paris BRI, alerted by Neuilly municipal police, tailed the suspects and arrested them near the 16th arrondissement residence on November 6.
- Prosecutors say the men, aged 19 and 20, were formally investigated and remanded on November 8 as part of a judicial probe opened by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office.
- Officers seized a replica alarm pistol, a knife, plastic cable ties and a fake parcel consistent with a delivery ruse used in home‑jackings.
- The pair were stopped in a stolen car with disguised plates, and reporting notes prior police records for both suspects.
- Charges in the investigation include association of malefactors, attempted organized theft with a weapon, refusal to provide decryption keys and receiving stolen goods.