Police warns against rumors of attacks on Paris – ladepeche.fr

                          Published on 03/13/2016 at 05:50 , updated 03/13/2016 at 05:51

     

                                 Prime Minister Manuel Valls, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and the Minister of Justice Jean-Jacques Urvoas, at the mini-summit on terrorism in Brussels
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messages relaying an alleged threat of attacks in Parisian public places have been circulating since Friday overwhelmingly by SMS and internet, but police warned against “rumors “and recalled that the alert level, high, had not changed since November 13. The messages circulating report, often citing “police friends”, an “imminent risk of attacks” in “stores and shopping centers” in northern Paris.

“Do not spread rumors, for more information check the official sites “, yesterday asked the Paris police headquarters on his Twitter account. “The terrorist threat is still high since November 13, but there is no particular risk this weekend,” said a police source, reminding that such rumors circulated fairly regularly since the Paris attacks. This latest false alarm appears related to the arrest of four girls, two girls aged 15 and 17 indictments in the night from Friday to Saturday for threatening in the exchange of messages on Facebook to commit attacks “similar to those of 13 November, “particularly in a Paris concert hall.

According to the Paris prosecutor, he seemed to be at this stage of an” intellectual project “,” no weapons or nature of substance explosive “that have been discovered. However, the police, in an internal note, given precautionary instructions and dictated preventive security measures, according to a source familiar with the matter. “This is the note that has leaked and triggered the alarmist messages,” says the police source. “The implementation of preventive measures does not mean that the threat is serious and proven, but we have to always take precautions,” justified the source. Jihadist attacks of November 13, the deadliest ever committed in France, were 130 dead and hundreds injured in the Bataclan the theater, in the Parisian bars and restaurants and close to the Stade de France.