Eighteen legal weapons and 23 illegal weapons, 167 magazines including 72 Kalashnikovs. And that’s only part of the seizure. A number of weapons “impressive” was found in four members of the ultra-right movement during a dragnet in Alsace on Tuesday, May 31.
No sign of taking action, no concrete plan has however been detected for the moment among those arrested, said Friday, June 3 the prosecutor of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), pending the analysis of computer media. “It is the risk of seeing them switch to taking action that required” the intervention of the authorities, mentions the prosecutor.
Two of the four men arrested in connection with this affair were indicted for arms trafficking and imprisoned, Edwige Roux-Morizot said during a press conference. Both others are left free under judicial control. They face ten years in prison. A fifth person was left free.
In addition to the weapons, more than 35 kilos of gunpowder were discovered. home visits, “particularly fruitful” according to the prosecutor, also mention three ammunition presses, a large number of magazines for weapons of war, a casing heating machine, a banknote counter, four precision scales, more than 25,000 euros and two silencers. Ammunition quantities represent “at least 120,000 munitions of all calibers, but many intended for weapons of war”for a total weight of more than a ton, reports Lieutenant-Colonel Yann Wanson
Suspects are people “inserted”who work, “without any difficulty”, “citizens like the others” in appearance, aged 45 to 53, continued the prosecutor. They belong to a group of neo-Nazis, “which has been fully supported by the important literature found” in the suspects. One of the suspects “practised long distance shooting” in a club “with training courses” sniper,” added Lt. Col. Wanson.