The Bommeleeër (“bomb-layer”) is the gum that Luxembourg news outlets have been chewing for four decades now, and it’s time to blow another bubble: on 22 February, the public prosecutor’s office announced that the Council Chamber of the Luxembourg District Court has issued an order for the referral--to a criminal court--of eight people who have been charged by the examining magistrate following the 2014 trial.

Five former officers of the Grand Ducal Gendarmerie are accused of giving false evidence during the trial, between 2013 and 2014, and of obstructing the work of justice. In addition, a former member of the mobile brigade and two former officials of the public safety force are charged with giving false testimony.

Contrary to the prosecution’s request, the court also ruled that the first five defendants and the member of the mobile brigade should not be prosecuted for the explosives attacks themselves.

All eight can appeal against this decision, and are of course presumed innocent until the case is finally decided.

The name Bommeleeër refers to a bizarre series of attacks, between 30 May 1984 and 26 March 1986, using explosives stolen from quarries. A total of five people were injured in the attacks, which have given rise to all kinds of hypotheses about the perpetrators and their motives. Some of those involved have died since the investigations began.

This article in Paperjam. It has been translated and edited for Delano.