An attack was foiled military installations – Le Figaro

VIDEO – Four suspects, aged 16 to 23 years, planned to film the beheading of a senior

A planned attack trying to hit the French army in an atrocious manner was foiled on the eve of the national holiday on our territory. This terrorist target, had it been completed, would have been a first of its kind, knowing that our soldiers have already been targeted, especially when static guards at a Jewish building in Nice in February. In this case, the Islamist commando put out of harm’s way on Monday would push the limits of the unspeakable filming, using a handheld camera GoPro kind of beheading a senior officer.

The matter is so serious that it was stale unexpectedly Wednesday by François Hollande, on the sidelines of an official visit to Marseille with his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto . Bernard Cazeneuve revealed in the evening that the alleged jihadist group was dismantled Monday, July 13 at dawn. It consists of four men aged 16 to 23, which include a former military reformed the Navy, simultaneously arrested in the north, the Rhone, the Bouches-du-Rhône and Yvelines. During their detention in the premises of the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB) in Levallois-Perret, the protagonists have recognized, according to the testimony, wanting to act between December 2015 and January 2016. Their intention was to enter a base they had spotted in the south of France, to hijack the commanding officer before filming their medieval act and disseminate it on social networks.

Based on accurate information ISB, the Paris prosecutor opened on 23 June a preliminary investigation for “criminal association in order to carry out a terrorist act.” The main instigator was detected because of his activism on social networks and, as the host of the Place Beauvau, in the “relational French jihadists imprisoned today.” It was also noted because of its starting inclinations to Syria. Plot with a magnifying glass, he had been an “administrative service” led by the services. By screening his entourage, police were able to identify three accomplices, including the marine reformed presented informed source as “one of the two leaders of the cell.” During the searches, investigators confiscated computers and mobile phones whose content is presented as “very interesting”. The familiar with the matter did not indicate whether the suspected Islamists were linked to a terrorist group based in Syria-Iraq zone or guided in the manner of Sid Ahmed Ghlam, prime suspect in the draft foiled attacks on at least one church in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne) in April.

“Every week, we stop, we prevent terrorist acts,” insisted Bernard Cazeneuve, confirming the words of the Head of State during his traditional interview of July 14. Manuel Valls announced April 23 that five attacks had been foiled since January. After stressing that “no link can be established at this stage with the facts that have recently occurred in the Rhone delta”, ie criminal explosions on the petrochemical site Berre-l’Étang and theft explosives in a depot of the army in Miramas, Bernard Cazeneuve said that “there are now 1,850 French residents usually in France or who are now involved in jihadist branches, including 500 in Syria or Iraq “. In terms of prevention, 2500 radicals, identified since the toll there is almost a year and a half, are all subject to specific monitoring. Monday’s operation brings to 326 the number of suspects arrested in jihadist sectors since 2012. Among them are 188 indicted, including 126 imprisoned. That is to say, as many fanatics who would potentially hit France.