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Frédéric Scheiber / 20MINUTES
The facts date back to March 12 in Horbourg-Whir in the Haut-Rhin.
That day, at 6:10 p.m., two individuals, masked and gloved, their heads covered with a balaclava or a hood, entered the bakery through the service door before brandishing an automatic pistol-type weapon.
The attackers also had a tear gas canister specifies the parquet floor of Colmar.
The two men were given the contents of one of the crates and demanded the opening of a safe.
Then they locked up the six employees, without forgetting to seize the phone of a victim to prevent her from raising the alert.
The two individuals then fled on foot before getting into a car parked nearby.
A vehicle that will be found two days later about twenty kilometers from the facts, in Bergheim (68), completely charred.
Known to justice
A call for witnesses was launched in the wake and the investigation entrusted to the research brigade of the Colmar gendarmerie company identified five people who were referred to the judicial court of the Haut-Rhin prefecture on Thursday morning. .
The latter could have taken a more or less active part in the design, preparation, aid and assistance and the armed attack specifies the prosecution.
Some people acknowledged their participation.
A judicial investigation for criminal conspiracy, extortion with a weapon, complicity in extortion with a weapon and destruction of evidence, has been opened.
All of the suspects have criminal records.
The prosecution requested their indictment and their placement in pre-trial detention pending the decision of the judge of freedoms and detention.
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