Three young men, including a former soldier suspected of planned an attack on a military installation in the Pyrenees-Orientales and the beheading of an officer in the name of jihad, were in custody Thursday.
Aged 17, 19 and 23, the three Men heard by the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB) were arrested Monday national holiday eve, at 6:00, as a 16 year old since released. They could be presented to a judge Friday.
The operation had not leaked until Hollande loose Wednesday that “terrorist acts” had been foiled “this week.” The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve soon after spoke of a “terrorist act against French military installations.”
Faced with these ads in full custody, the Chief Republicans (former UMP) and former head of the National Police Frédéric Péchenard denounced a “political will to appropriation” of anti-terrorism.
“When there are serious facts, it is the role of government to inform the French. We can not hide the truth from French,” he . replied Bernard Cazeneuve
The military is a recurring target for jihadists in France, Mohamed Merah had murdered three and critically wounded one in March 2012. Members of the so-called cell-Torcy Cannes, a few dismantled months later, were planning to attack the soldiers. And several soldiers deployed as part of Operation Vigipirate were attacked.
According to a source close to the case, the three men, who claim to custody of the organization of the Islamic State (EI) and claim their jihadist commitment, they have planned to attack the Fort Béar, a military camp in the hills above Port-Vendres.
They would have considered there to kill soldiers stationed in semaphore, and decapitate the head of the detachment, said the source. A scene that, according to a source close to the investigation, they would have liked to film for broadcast on the Internet. Béar Fort, overlooking the Mediterranean, home to the National Centre for commando training, close to Collioure
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This project was envisaged for the end year, maybe 31 December 2015, relying on the fact that the staff there would have been reduced this holiday period, reported the source.
The eldest of the trio was the semaphore watcher Fort Béar, according to another source close to the case, before being reformed in the Navy. His contract ended on 21 January 2014. He had health problems, according to the source close to the case, who added he could “feed a personal grudge against the detachment commander.”
Orders near Valenciennes (North), in Chesnay (Yvelines) and Marseilles according to the source, the three men have been in contact over the internet, via encrypted applications. A train ticket found in one of them accredit the assumption that they expected to meet soon.
They would initially planned to travel to Syria to wage jihad. But the radicalization of the younger was reported by a close family member. Described as “a driving force”, the young man of 17 was spotted and was the subject of an administrative maintenance.
According to Bernard Cazeneuve, his “activism on social networks”, was also identified.
Knowing watched the three men have renounced visit Syria says the source. A jihadist with whom they were in contact in this country would have advised them to take action in France.
No weapons or explosives were not were found during the searches. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened June 23 preliminary investigations “for conspiracy to prepare acts of terrorism.”
Since the beginning of the year, shares in the name of jihad have multiplied in France: Paris bombings that killed 17 people in addition to the authors in January, plan of attack against churches avoided the Val-de-Marne which the alleged offender is suspected of killing a young woman, beheading of a business leader by one of its employees in Isère.
“We face a terrorist threat that we have ever known, unprecedented. An external threat and internal threat,” said Manuel Valls Thursday morning.
16 / 7:31:48 p.m. 07/2015 – Paris (AFP) – By Pauline TALAGRAND and Nicolas Gaudichet – AFP © 2015
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