Overview
- Anti-gang BRI officers arrested five men and one woman at a Vénissieux apartment within hours of the attack, with no shots fired.
- Police had monitored the group since early September under an organized-crime probe into a planned robbery.
- Searches in Décines-Charpieu, Jonage and Bron uncovered an arsenal of assault-rifle–type weapons, handguns, shotguns, explosives, forged documents, flashing lights and €68,000 in cash.
- The six were charged with criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, aggravated theft, handling stolen goods and destruction by dangerous means within an organized gang, then placed in provisional detention after four days in custody.
- The target, Pourquery, was breached with explosives by assailants in dark clothing using fake police identifiers before they moved 306 kilograms of precious metal into vehicles.