Overview
- A large group of armed men converged on houses linked to convicted criminal Jan G., and in the night of Monday to Tuesday a 51‑year‑old security guard was shot dead while two police officers were wounded.
- Police detained 34 people after the violence and the Public Prosecution Service presented 32 of them to a court on identical collective counts that include murder or manslaughter in association, attempted murder of police, preparatory acts and firearms offences.
- The suspects are mostly aged about 18–32 and include two minors of 16 and 17; nationalities reported by the OM include 16 French, 11 Dutch and several others from Algeria, Libya, Ukraine and Belgium.
- Investigators have carried out multiple house searches, recovered additional weapons including a newly reported firearm, and are pursuing phone, DNA and CCTV work with national units and cross‑border partners while one wounded officer is home and the other is no longer on intensive care.
- Local officials closed a second house for two weeks, held a residents' meeting and opened an information line, and national ministers have been pressed for answers as media reports link the attack to a missing cocaine shipment but police have not confirmed that connection.