Overview
- The six butchers were formally placed under investigation and judicial supervision on Saturday, September 26, 2026, after earlier police custody of ten suspects.
- They face multiple charges including involuntary homicide, involuntary injuries, endangering others, fraud that risks health, receiving stolen goods, and illicit slaughter outside an abattoir.
- Court orders bar them from working as butchers or handling raw meat and prohibit contact with co‑accused while judges from the Paris public‑health unit continue technical probes.
- Reporting and investigative leads have pointed prosecutors to a nearby farm that reportedly sold about fifty sheep and to allegations that some animals were slaughtered and butchered outside regulated channels.
- Families of the roughly 32 people sickened in June 2025, including children who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome and the 11‑year‑old who died, have filed civil complaints and await clearer answers and hearings.