Two additional people were charged and placed in pre-trial detention as part of the investigation into the violence that occurred from June 12 to 15 in Dijon. These are two men who have already been convicted and who have been placed under judicial supervision in connection with other cases.

Two additional people were charged and placed in pre-trial detention as part of the investigation into the violence that occurred from June 12 to 15 in Dijon, the prosecution announced Thursday evening. They are two men, 32 and 27 years old, living in the region, already convicted and who were placed under judicial supervision in other cases. They are part of a group of six people who had been placed in police custody since Tuesday, including two others who were released for want of charges. The last two remain in police custody, said the public prosecutor in Dijon, Eric Mathais, in a press release.

Violence committed during the night of June 9-10

The acts of violence alleged against the two accused "seem to be behind this file," added the magistrate. They had been committed during the night of June 9-10, "against victims from the 'Chechen community', by a group of people 'designated as of North African origin'". These two indictments are in addition to six others which occurred between June 20 and July 3 in the context of this judicial information, three people having then been imprisoned and three others placed under judicial control, according to the same source. 

The violence in the Dijon district of Les Grésilles and in Chenôve, a nearby suburb, had taken place after a series of reprisals launched by members of the Chechen community, who wanted to take revenge on the aggression of a teenager whom they attributed to sizzling dealers. 

Eleven people were also sentenced at the end of June for drug trafficking or "crime of participation with a weapon in a crowd by a person voluntarily concealing his face", following searches and arrests initiated following these attacks. troubles.