Illustration of judicial police officers.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

All are accused of having played an important role that night from January 27 to 28.

After several days in police custody, five people were indicted and imprisoned at the end of last week in Lyon as part of the investigation into the theft of gold and the hostage-taking that occurred in the Lyon metropolitan area. two months ago.

On the night of the events, the boss of a company specializing in gold processing, based in Limonest, was targeted at his home in Bessenay, and his son and his girlfriend were kidnapped and kidnapped. .

They were not released until late at night when the entrepreneur ended up bringing 50 kg of gold to the criminals to save his son.

From Vaulx-en-Velin and Villeurbanne

Of the nine people arrested last Monday, five men, from Vaulx-en-Velin, were indicted for "organized gang robbery, kidnapping, organized gang kidnapping and criminal association".

The fourth, in whom the 50 kg of gold had been found during searches carried out at his home in Villeurbanne, is being prosecuted for "concealment in an organized gang", reports

Le Progrès.

The four other suspects arrested by the men of the PJ of Lyon and the research section of the gendarmerie, were released.

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