Over the following seventy-two hours, the City of Light seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief and celebration. The French Ministry of Justice moved with unprecedented swiftness. Henri Dupont’s confession, corroborated by encrypted files seized from his Saint-Denis safehouse, resulted in a formal indictment on fourteen felony counts, including kidnapping, extortion, illegal arms trafficking, and transnational money laundering. A special magistrate in Paris officially ordered Dupont transferred to a…
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