Two men linked to a jihadist who killed a French police officer and his partner were charged* and detained by an anti-terror court Saturday, reports The Guardian.
Saad Rajraji, 27, and Charaf-Din Aberouz, 29, were charged* with having links to a terrorist group, but not in connection to the Isis-inspired murder of the police couple carried out by Larossi Abballa last Monday.
The two men had been convicted along with Abballa in September 2013 as part of a network to send jihadists to Pakistan, judicial sources close to the investigation said.
A third man arrested in the case was released without charge*.
Abballa, a convicted radical who had been under surveillance, murdered the police officer and his partner outside their home and then was killed himself in a police raid.
Read more of this report from The Guardian.
*Editor's note: Under a change to the French legal system introduced in 1993, a magistrate can decide a suspect should be 'placed under investigation' (mise en examen), which is a status one step short of being charged (inculpé), if there is 'serious or concordant' evidence that they committed a crime. Some English-language media describe this status, peculiar to French criminal law, as that of being charged. In fact, it is only at the end of an investigation that a decision can be made to bring charges, in which case the accused is automatically sent for trial.