This Tuesday, July 2, several people were arrested in the Ajaccio region and placed in police custody. The investigation is said to focus in particular on facts of criminal association with a view to committing a crime.
This Tuesday, July 2, several people were arrested in the Ajaccio region and placed in police custody, as part of a case of criminal association with a view to committing a crime.
The information was revealed by Corse-Matin.
The five people were reportedly arrested by the Corsican gendarmerie’s research section. When contacted, the Ajaccio public prosecutor indicated that this intervention was led by an Ajaccian investigating magistrate, and specified that he could not comment further on it in this context.
According to our colleagues, these arrests follow others that occurred on February 22.
That day, tThree people had been arrested in South Corsica.
In Haute-Corse, the operation took a dramatic turn: Alain Cappuri, 63, was shot dead when the police came to arrest him at his home. from Poggio d’Oletta.
The gendarmerie was intervening as part of a “operation conducted by the services of the SR of Ajaccio with the assistance of the SR of Bastia and soldiers of the PSIG of Bastia on the request of an investigating judge at the Judicial Court of Ajaccio on charges of receiving stolen goods, criminal association and organized gang theft”the Bastia public prosecutor’s office had then indicated.
Contacted, the Ajaccio prosecutor did not wish to comment.
The five people arrested on Tuesday could be held in police custody for up to 96 hours.
