Four people were arrested Monday and placed in custody as part of an investigation into planned attack was foiled, said Bernard Cazeneuve, Minister of Interior on Wednesday night.
A former Navy
The four people, aged 16 to 23, are in custody at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Internal Security. Among them is a former military reformed the Navy
They were arrested Monday “at dawn” , in four different locations in the French territory. In the North , the Rhone, the south of France and Yvelines, the newspaper Le Figaro’s website. One of the four in custody is known to the security services to connect with the people involved in jihadist networks.
The attack was planned in January in southern
The foiled attack project targeted military facilities, said the Interior Minister. It appears that the suspects were planning to behead a senior officer of a southern military base of France and to film the scene. The attack was obviously planned for January 2016.
An investigation on June 23
A preliminary investigation was opened on 23 June by the anti-terrorist section of parquet Paris “for conspiracy to prepare acts of terrorism,” said Bernard Cazeneuve.
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The foiled terrorist acts
In the post noon, President Francois Hollande stated that “terrorist acts” had been foiled “this week” in France, on the sidelines of a trip to Marseille with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
“This week we have also warned of terrorist acts that could have been produced” , said the head of state, who was questioned about the explosion on the petrochemical site near the Etang de Berre (Bouches-du-Rhône). About these explosions he promised that the state would do “to know all the circumstances of what happened” and “the authors” are “hunted, found and condemned” .
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