Overview
- Judges placed six suspects under formal investigation and under judicial supervision after nine arrests this week in Lyon, Marseille and Albi.
- Prosecutors had requested pre-trial detention given charges of organized arson, aggravated violence and criminal conspiracy carrying sentences of up to about 20 years.
- The 51-year-old former manager of a security subcontractor tied to the project acknowledged organizing the groups described by the prosecutor as commandos.
- Five alleged executants aged 22 to 33 admitted taking part for pay, with early interrogations citing payments of roughly €800 per operation.
- Three of the nine were put out of cause, the source of the payments remains unidentified, and Atosca along with NGE say they are not implicated.