Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Jihadist sector: six people arrested in Lyon – Le Nouvel Observateur

Jihadist sector: six people arrested in Lyon – Le Nouvel Observateur

Paris (AFP) – Six people were arrested since Tuesday in the Lyon region, including suspected of participating in the recruitment of young women for jihad in Syria, in the parliamentary debate on the new anti-terrorism law

<. p> The dragnet was notably made Meyzieu and Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, as part of an open in July by the terrorism prosecutor of Paris preliminary investigation, told AFP a source record.

Two minors, a girl who seemed to be preparing to leave for Syria, according to a police source, are among the six people who were taken into custody.

This operation, which continued Wednesday morning began Tuesday around 7:00 near an industrial area Meyzieu, in eastern Lyon. Open count of “criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise”, the survey is conducted by the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB).

The judicial source said a weapon was seized in a search. In a statement, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has reported the seizure of “various weapons and equipment it is up to the judicial inquiry to determine the objective.”

According to a police source, a brother and older sister, 34, were among those arrested, suspected of involvement in the recruitment of young women candidates for jihad

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two others in custody, two brothers aged about twenty years, had already been arrested in the past as part of an investigation into the Islamic group dissolved in 2012 Forsane Alizza (The Knights of Pride), according to this source.

On Tuesday morning, a search of a particular target of 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Meyzieu home of the father of one of those arrested, a single storey house surrounded by large garages and warehouses.

“The door was broken, they (police) have scared us. They said they were looking for weapons but there was nothing here,” defended AFP this sexagenarian stating that his daughter, who does not live with him, has not been arrested at his home.

“My children practice religion as all Muslims. They did nothing to the internet via chat! “Has he said, adding that in 2012 already, the police had come to his house and found nothing he said.

This shot net takes full consideration by the National Assembly a bill that strengthens the anti-terrorist arsenal. Its main measure, the administrative ban on leaving the country to prevent the departure of candidates for jihad in Syria and Iraq, was approved Tuesday night by members.

In a statement, Mr. Cazeneuve welcomes the operation of the SID and the arrest of individuals “suspected to have played a very active role in recruiting and the departure in recent months to Syria several young women. “

According to the government, about 930 French are involved in pathways to Syria and Iraq (350 on site including 63 women, 185 left Syria, 170 in transit to the area and having 232 attempts at starting) number in “74% increase in eight months.”

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