Twenty members of the network were tried by a special anti-terror tribunal in Paris in 2017. Of the twenty, ten were in prison, seven on conditional release, and three others at large, with two thought to be in Syria. The cell was accused of plotting attacks against both military and civilian targets, and of seeking to join jihadists in Syria. During the trial, the cell was described as "the missing link" between Mohammed Merah, the perpetrator of the March 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings, and the Brussels ISIL terror cell responsible for the November 2015 Paris attacks.