Overview

• The appeals chamber definitively referred the case to the Paris cour d’assises, charging Loïk Le Priol with assassination, Romain Bouvier with attempted assassination, and Lyson Rochemir with complicity in attempted assassination.
• The order corrects a February ruling after the Court of Cassation identified contradictions in how the charges were legally qualified.
• Judges found no single criminal plan among all the accused, which leaves Le Priol alone facing an assassination count while Bouvier is limited to attempted assassination.
• The assize trial is expected in the first half of 2026, with the Aramburu family’s lawyer saying the civil parties can now prepare for the proceedings.
• Aramburu, 42, was fatally shot after an altercation near a boulevard Saint‑Germain bar; the suspects are linked to the GUD ultraright network, were arrested in Hungary and in the Sarthe, and had prior 2022 assault convictions.