Suspected of having participated in arms trafficking, four men were indicted and two imprisoned in Marseille, the prosecution announced on Friday in a press release.
"Four men aged 47, 52, 55 and 71, already convicted and some of them several times, have been indicted," Marseille public prosecutor Dominique Laurens said in a statement, adding that “two of them have been remanded in custody”.
twenty weapons
In mid-August, a judicial investigation had been opened for the heads of "unauthorized acquisition, possession, offer or transfer of war material, weapon, ammunition (…) in a meeting and participation in a criminal association", corresponding to acts committed in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in 2022.
At the end of the investigation carried out by the Brigade for the repression of banditry (BRB) of the judicial police, nine people had been placed in police custody at the beginning of the week.
Twenty weapons "including two grenades, a submachine gun, two assault rifles, a shotgun, several handguns" and ammunition were seized in the towns of Marignane, in the 12th and 13th arrondissements of Marseille and in three other communes of the department.
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