Overview
- Police detained two men, ages 22 and 26, in the Rhône and the Aube on counts of intentional homicide and criminal conspiracy.
- The operation was supported by the antiterrorism sub-directorate (SDAT), which has been co-seized by investigating judges for its expertise on violent movements.
- Investigators now believe they have identified everyone who directly delivered the blows that killed the 23-year-old in Lyon on February 12.
- Earlier arrests on February 17–18 led to seven formal prosecutions, including six for intentional homicide and one for complicity, with six suspects jailed and one in provisional detention.
- Several suspects are reported as members or close to the dissolved ultraleft group La Jeune Garde, including two former parliamentary assistants to LFI deputy Raphaël Arnault, a linkage that has intensified political pressure on the party.