Saturday, April 2, 2016

planned attack foiled: facts, suspects and issues – Le Figaro

VIDEOS – A third man has been charged in Belgium for its possible participation in the project. Since the arrest of Reda Kriket, several arrests were conducted. Update on the suspects involved and the discoveries announced last week.

The arrest of Reda Kriket in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de -Seine, on March 25 helped thwart an “imminent” planned attack. Since then, several other arrests took place in Belgium and the Netherlands, of which the latest was announced by the federal Belgian parquet Saturday. The precise target of the attack is not known, and investigators are always looking for links between suspects and jihadist networks

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• How many suspects are involved

to date, five arrests led to prosecutions: three in Belgium, one in France and one in the Country -Low. At least two other people were also detained in Belgium for several days without being charged.

Reda Kriket , a French ex-robber, 34, was sentenced in absentia last year in Belgium in the trial of a Jihadist thread to Syria, which one of the main defendants was none other than the Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. It is also believed to have stayed in the ranks of Daech Syria. Wednesday, March 31, he was indicted including “participation in an association of criminal terrorist conspiracy” and possession of weapons and explosives. He was detained

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Prime suspect in this case to be arrested in Belgium, Rabah N. was arrested in Brussels on 25 March and charged the next day “participation in a terrorist group.”

The Belgian court has indicted a second suspect on 27 March Abderamane A. , also arrested in Brussels on 25 March. He had been wounded in the leg during his arrest near a tram stop in the center of the Belgian capital. A. Abderrahmane had already been convicted in Paris in 2005 at the trial of a network accused of having provided logistical support from Afghanistan assassins of Commander Massoud, killed on 9 September 2001, two days before the attacks against the World Trade Center in New York.

Anis Bahri , a French 32, born in Montreuil and domiciled in the Val-de-Marne, was arrested in Rotterdam, the Nether- Netherlands, on 27 March. He is suspected “of having visited Syria between late 2014 and early 2015″ with Reda Kriket, according to the Paris prosecutor. The two men were “suspected since returning to make return trips between France, Belgium and the Netherlands.” Anis Bahri is the subject of a European arrest warrant of French judges. Dutch courts decided Wednesday to keep in custody for another two weeks two men arrested with him, aged 43 and 47 years

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fifth man is the third to have been charged in Belgium on Saturday to “participation in a terrorist group” as part of the investigation this “imminent” planned attack foiled. “As part of the investigation which led to the arrest of the named Reda Kriket” a judge specialized instruction in terrorism indicted and jailed Friday “named Y. A. , born May 4, 1982, from Belgium, “said the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement Saturday, without giving further details.



• Who owns the arsenal” of an unprecedented scale “discovered?

During the search in the apartment rented by Reda Argenteuil Kriket since the summer of 2015 under a false identity, investigators found” three bottles of hydrogen peroxide , acetone, a Tupperware containing 105 grams of TATP “prized substance jihadists, but also” two cans of 10 and 15 liter container of acid. ”

In the apartment, a safe contained “acid glycerin six vials, 1.3 kg of industrial explosives, five assault rifles Kalashnikov and chargers, a machine pistol of Croatian origin (…), seven handguns “and” numerous ammunition “has listed François Molins, the Paris prosecutor. The police also find “a syringe detonator filled with powder with electric power ready” and four cartons of “thousands of steel balls, five stolen French passports seven phones (…)”.

the exploitation of the contents of two computers has also show “documentation in connection with jihadist groups and the homemade explosives”.

Reda Kriket answered investigators he was not the owner of this arsenal and was only supposed to “keep” the apartment, in which he himself led investigators after his arrest Boulogne

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• What was the target of this action” extreme violence “prepared?

After detailing this arsenal, the Paris prosecutor emphasized these discoveries left to think about an” imminent terrorist action. ” “At this stage of the investigations, if any precise projected target has been identified, while nevertheless suggests that the discovery of this cache has prevented the commission of an action of extreme violence by a terrorist network ready to take action, “said Francois Molins. In other words, the attack could have been carried out in a short time and have devastating consequences. But no specific targets are known to date.

The Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed these ads on Thursday at the session of questions to the government. “I can confirm that yesterday the prosecutor Molins said it was a massive project, imminent, which was our country,” he said turning a response on constitutional revision

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