Wednesday, July 15, 2015

A planned attack foiled against a military base, three men … – Le Monde

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A minor of 17, a young adult of 19 years and a former reformed the French navy sailor of 23 years … and age profile of the three individuals placed in custody, Monday, July 13, for planning a terrorist attack against a French military base has enough challenge. This is the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, who announced Wednesday night in the press this dragnet of the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB).

According to World , these three individuals – arrested in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Rhone and Yvelines – have recognized their intentions during their detention, which may continue until Friday morning. Some even specified the nature film the beheading with a GoPro camera to an officer of a military base in southern France

They have instead said that. minor of 16, also arrested and put in custody, had been excluded from the project due to his young age. His detention was lifted Wednesday evening

Attack programmed for 2015-2016

This attack -. Still in draft form – was scheduled between December 2015 and January 2016, a period considered auspicious because the number of armed soldiers would be lower at this time of the year, to allow time to prepare for their action, they explained to investigators ISB, only service seized of the investigation. Their statements, which have fluctuated since Monday, are nevertheless likely to change until the end of their custody.

One of the main “instigators” this project – the minor aged 17 – had been spotted late 2014 for his “activism on social networks” and “starting inclinations” in Syria as part of the device set up by the government to prevent jihadist dies, the minister said. He had been an administrative maintenance by ISB in October 2014 and was, according to a source close to the matter in connection with another young party in Syria and put on probation for his return.

Its oversight was then identified the three other individuals with whom he was in contact and to glimpse their design. According to the World Information , the young candidate for jihad 17 years would pass the act, but it is the former military navy which would have brought specific ideas, proposing to target a base in southern France where he had served before being reformed. The third person in custody, aged 19, had also been spotted for his links with the radical movement.

According to a source close to the case, information “foreign” would have helped to attract the attention of French services on their intentions. The analysis of computers and mobile phones in custody should determine if their project was coordinated with a corresponding Syria

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Early Announcement

The accuracy of their conversations on forums encrypted in any case led ISB to ask June 23 Paris prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation for conspiracy to prepare acts of terrorism. A snapshot survey … that lasted less than three weeks. According to a source close to the case, it is the nature of their target and “the imminence of the national holiday,” on July 14 that “precipitate their arrest” and “even if the project could seem distant” .

The announcement to the press that flattering deal for ISB was also somewhat precipitous at chagrin of investigative services. Without waiting for their eventual arraignment before an anti-terrorist judge, expected by Friday, the president, Francois Hollande, who said Wednesday in late afternoon on the sidelines of a trip to Marseille that ” terrorist acts “ were ” remanded “ this week. “The interior minister will make a future communication [Thursday] for this purpose” , had he said to some journalists who accompanied him.

This early announcement of François Hollande has revolutionized the communications plan of the place Beauvau, who had in fact planned to announce this dragnet Thursday afternoon. Given the turmoil in the media caused by the cryptic sentence of the Head of State, Bernard Cazeneuve was finally forced to move forward in its communication to the precipitation Wednesday night, at the stroke of 21 am 30.

The Minister took this speaking to showcase the latest quantitative assessments of the fight against jihadist networks. Since the introduction of the toll there a year and a half, some 2 500 people were reported for “radicalization”. An important follow-up work for the intelligence services, which has enabled to identify the youngest suspects still in custody. Despite this preventive mechanism set up in April 2014, the French contingent parties in Syria reached almost 500 individuals since the beginning of the Civil War

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