Overview
- Police arrested two men aged 19 and 20 at the foot of Luca de Meo’s building in early November as they prepared an attack, according to confirmed accounts.
- The suspects were placed under formal investigation and pre-trial detention on November 8 on counts including attempted theft in an organized gang with a weapon and criminal association.
- Additional counts reported by prosecutors include refusing to provide decryption keys and receiving stolen goods.
- Investigators say the pair carried a blank-firing pistol, a knife, plastic cable ties and a fake parcel, consistent with a false-delivery home-jacking tactic.
- The operation followed days of surveillance that began in Neuilly-sur-Seine; the men were intercepted in a stolen car with concealed plates and were already known to police.