The Islamist robber Lionel Dumont, a former member of the “Roubaix gang”, sentenced in 2007 to 25 years in prison, was released from prison in mid-November. He was placed under an electronic bracelet, we learned on Thursday from a judicial source and a source familiar with the matter.
A judicial source at the Caen Court of Appeal confirmed to AFP, following various press articles, “the release from detention of Mr. Dumont by a judgment of October 28, 2021”. He was placed “under the regime of the electronic bracelet”, according to this same source. According to a source familiar with the matter, he was released from prison on November 17 and is staying in Dunkirk, in the North. His sentence was due to end in March, the source said.
Robberies and a failed attack
Lionel Dumont had been sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment in 2007 by the Paris Assize Court of Appeal for two robberies, in February and March 1996 near Roubaix, as well as for an attempted car bomb attack. in front of the Lille central police station on March 28, 1996, a few days before a G7 meeting in the city. It was the day after this failed attack, on March 29, 1996, that the Raid attacked a hideout of the group of ten Islamist robbers in Roubaix.
Born 51 years ago into a working-class family in Tourcoing, converted to Islam at the age of 20, Lionel Dumont had turned to banditry on his return from the war in Bosnia where he had fought in 1994-95 in the side of the mujahideen. Arrested in 2003 in Germany after a run of almost eight years, he had become very close to the leader of the gang, Christophe Caze, killed shortly after the assault of the Fatal Raid to four other members.
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