Dating back to the 1980s, the Bomber's Affair, known in Luxembourgish as the 'Bommeleeër' case, seems to have reached a new stage.

The public prosecutor's office in Luxembourg City has transmitted its report, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement published on Tuesday. It is now up to the Chamber of the District Court to rule on the report of the examining magistrate.
 
The judges of the latter body will have to decide whether there are sufficient charges to justify the appearance of one or more of the men in question before the criminal chamber of the District Court of Luxembourg City.
 
In a rather surprising announcement, the public prosecutor's office now also seeks the indictment of the man who founded the Gendarmerie's Mobile Brigade at the time, Ben Geiben. Geiben was explicitly not charged by the examining magistrate in 2019.
 
The prosecution accuses Geiben of having been one of the main culprits or at least an accomplice in the attacks that hit Luxembourg in the 1980s.
 
In addition, the prosecution seeks the indictment of five former members of the Gendarmerie leadership, Pierre Reuland, Guy Stebens, Aloyse Harpes, Charel Bourg, and Armand Schockweiler, as well as former 'Sûreté' investigators Paul Haan and Guillaume Büchler. At the time, Haan and Büchler staked out Ben Geiben in Brussels.
 
It is now up to the Council Chamber to decide whether to indict these individuals. This decision will be subject to appeal. The case is still under investigation.
 
Previously, the former members of the Gendarmerie's Mobile Brigade, Marc Scheer, Marcel Weydert, and Jos Wilmes had already been indicted during a first phase of the 'Bommeleeër' trial, which took place between February 2013 and June 2014. The trial was interrupted because the judges wanted to extend the investigation to other persons.
 
The 'Bommeleeër' case dates back to the mid-1980s. At that time, some twenty bomb attacks hit public infrastructures as well as private homes in Luxembourg. By pure chance or luck, no one was killed or seriously injured. The material damage was high, however. These events are widely regarded as unprecedented in Luxembourg's criminal history.