Did the criminals try to attack the attorney general at the Douai Court of Appeal (North)? The investigation, carried out very discreetly, is shaking up the judiciary and could offer a new illustration of the pressure placed on judicial services in the highly tense context of the fight against drug trafficking.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30, a notice arrived at the Douai police services: a “violent action” It is considered against Frédéric Fèvre, attorney general of the city’s court of appeal. Suspicious vehicles have even been reported near the high magistrate’s house. Several police teams went to the scene and detected the strange behavior of at least two vehicles.
For the police there is no doubt: the people traveling on board carry out a reconnaissance, perhaps before acting. They decide to intervene and intercept a first vehicle, in which they arrest Hussein H., 41 years old, unknown in the criminal record processing file (TAJ). But the second vehicle escaped them, before being spotted several dozen kilometers away, in the territory of the municipality of Roubaix, where it was finally blocked. Samir A., 28 years old, Abdelkader F., 36 years old, and Yacine D., 25 years old, are alternately detained.
“Little criminals”
Between them, they have several mentions in the TAJ, from driving a car without a license to armed robbery, to the use of firearms and possession of narcotics. But if the quartet declare themselves homeless, investigators from the interregional judicial police of the North department identify several of their delivery points. The searches carried out there, as well as the search of the two vehicles, revealed no weapon other than a knife, but also a set of false documentation and a replica of an automatic pistol of the same model as the regulation weapon issued to the police. and the gendarmerie. On the other hand, around thirty cartridges and as many mobile phones, as well as almost 14,000 euros in cash, seized by investigators, are not fake.
Detained in police custody, the four men did not say anything about their motivations or the reasons for their nocturnal presence near Fèvre’s house, but the facts are considered serious enough for the national jurisdiction to challenge organized crime and take charge. of the procedure. entrusted to the local judicial police and the Central Office to Fight Organized Crime. After ninety-six hours of police detention, the four suspected of having prepared an action against Mr. Fèvre were charged with criminal association and acquisition of category B ammunition and imprisoned.
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