The two men are suspected of having wanted to eliminate a target outside the framework of their functions, an “attempt settlement account-private”, according to Le Parisien.
Two military officers attached to the Directorate-general for external security (DGSE), the services of espionage, the French, have been indicted and arrested for “attempted voluntary homicide organised”, has informed on Monday, the prosecutor of Paris, confirming information Parisien.
The two men, aged 28 and 25 years old, are assigned to the centre parachute training specializing in Saran (Loiret), which depends on the CCD. They are believed to have wanted to eliminate a target outside the course of their duties. “It is an attempt of settlement of accounts private and failed, on a private victim, by two agents who have launched solo”, has explained to the newspaper, a source close to the investigation.
A third suspect indicted
According to Le Parisien, the two men have been arrested in the night of the 23rd to the 24th of July last, while they were travelling on board a stolen vehicle in Créteil (Val-de-Marne). The investigators have found on them several firearms.
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According to the newspaper, a third suspect was also arrested on 26 July and was indicted for the same charges. The continuation of the investigation has been entrusted to the anti-terrorist section (SAT) of the major crime unit, empowered to investigate agents ‘ stamped secret.
