The trial of the staff of the skinhead group Blood and Honor Hexagon (BHH), an ultra-right group dissolved in 2019 for its racist and anti-Semitic neo-Nazi ideology, opened on Monday before the Marseille criminal court. They are on trial until Wednesday for participation in a combat group.
Tattoos on the neck and skull, Loïc Delboy, 41, founder-leader of the group, and David Dumas, 51, treasurer of Hexa Prods, the association serving as a legal showcase for BHH, took their place on the bench of warned. A third, Pierre Scarano dit Pierrot-le-fou, secretary of Hexa Prods, announced his presence on Tuesday.
A cash machine destroyed by explosives
A fourth, Jérémy Recagno, tattoo artist in Aubagne, sympathizer of BHH, was represented. “He is afraid of reprisals,” said his lawyer Yassine Maharsi at the opening of the proceedings. Four other defendants are tried solely for offenses against the legislation on weapons, unrelated to the small group.
The investigation began in 2014, thanks to anonymous information about the attack on a bank ATM destroyed by explosives, the C4 which was allegedly taken out of the Toulon arsenal by a marine. And in 2015, investigators began to take an interest in Jérémy Recagno. Beyond acquaintances with local robbers who earned him serious death threats, this former skinhead led the gendarmes to Blood and Honor Hexagon.