Overview
- Fourteen suspects remain under formal investigation for organized homicide and attempted homicides, with reports differing on custody status between nine and ten in pretrial detention and the rest under judicial control.
- A court-ordered digital reconstruction conducted in September 2025 failed to identify who delivered the fatal knife blow.
- Telephone intercepts from a co-accused’s jail calls pointed to a figure referred to as “Y,” possibly the suspect Yanis B., who acknowledged picking up a knife, but investigators have not validated this as conclusive.
- Underwater searches in January 2024 recovered a kitchen knife with a 15 cm blade at the Étangs de Chaleyre, a location visited by two suspects after the clash, and investigators say three knives were used that night.
- Lawyers and investigators describe a persistent refusal to name the assailant, leaving magistrates without a legally certain author despite extensive interviews and technical probes.