Four people aged 16 to 23 years were arrested Monday at four different points of the territory and placed in custody at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB), said Wednesday Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. This Thursday, three are still in custody. What was their project? Who was he targeting?
Beheading a ranking officer
The suspects were preparing a terrorist act against French military installations. They explained to investigators wanting to attack a senior officer of a military base in southern France, and planned to behead him and filming the scene with a GoPro, a small format camera. The attack was expected between late 2015 and early 2016.
The target: the strong Béar, commando training center
According to iTV, the suspects had planned to attack the fort Béar, located in Port-Vendres, in the Pyrenees Orientales. A strategic and symbolic place as it is one of two sites of the National Commando Training Centre, where train special forces involved in war as land in Mali.
The instigator, aged 17, had been spotted on social networks
The three young men still in custody on Thursday aged 17, 19 and 23 years. The instigator of the project would be the minor of 17 years. Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday that he “had been spotted for his activism on social networks and in relationship to French jihadists imprisoned today.” “It was also reported to the authorities because of his departure ambitions in Syria,” the minister added. One suspect, a former soldier of the Navy, worked at Fort Béar. It was reformed to behavioral problems and wanted to decapitate his ex-hierarchical superior.
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