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Le Monde | 07/15/2015 at 9:33 p.m. • Updated 17/07/2015 at 08:00 | By Soren Seelow

A minor of 17, a young adult of 19 years and a former sailor in the French navy reformed 23 years … The profile and the age of three individuals taken into custody custody, Monday, July 13, which will be presented to a judge Friday to plotting 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)

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 filming, using a GoPro camera, the beheading of an officer of a military base south of France. They have instead argued that a minor of 16, also arrested on Monday had been excluded from the project due to his young age. His detention was lifted Wednesday evening

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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 told investigators ISB, only relevant department of the investigation. Their statements, which have fluctuated since Monday, are likely to change until the end of their custody.

Coordinated with accomplices in Syria?

A key “instigators” of this project, minors aged 17, was spotted late 2014 for his “activism on social networks” and “starting inclinations” in Syria, under the system 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 used to identify the three individuals with whom he was in contact and to glimpse their design. According to the info World , the young candidate for jihad 17 years would pass the act, but it is the former military who would have brought specific ideas, proposing to target the site Port-Vendres (Pyrénées-Orientales), where a semaphore of the Navy and the National Training Centre commando army (CNEC) of Collioure, near. 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 the intentions of the small group. The analysis of computers and mobile phones in custody should determine if their project was coordinated with counterparts in Syria, with which the investigators established that they had established contacts.

Flattering for ISB

The accuracy of their conversations on forums encrypted in any case led ISB, after months of surveillance, June 23 to request the Paris prosecutor’s opening 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 ” precipitated their arrest “ and ” even if the project could seem distant “.

The announcement to the press that flattering deal for ISB has also been somewhat rushed, to the chagrin of investigative services. Without waiting for eventual presentation to an antiterrorist judge, scheduled no later than Friday, the president, Francois Hollande, said Wednesday in late afternoon on the sidelines of a trip to Marseille that “terrorist acts” were “remanded” this week.

This presidential leak has somewhat upset the communication plan to the Place Beauvau, who had originally planned to discuss this one net 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 in a hurry to his speaking Wednesday night, at the stroke of 21 am 30.

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