Threat of attack: A schoolboy of 15 years in contact with Rashid Kassim arrested – 20minutes.fr

JUSTICE The teenager has been in contact with the jihadist Rashid Kassim on the app Telegram…

Rashid Kassim, propaganda for Daesh, in a video of the July 20, 2016. – CAPTURE SCREEN

Philip Berry

• • Published on 01.10.2016 at 02:45
  • updated the 01.10.2016 at 02:45

A schoolboy of 15 years old, suspected of having wanted to commit an attack jihadist, has been indicted and jailed Friday night, a-t-on learned from justice source. He has been indicted for criminal association for terrorist, criminal, specified this source.

The teenager, a class of third and unknown to intelligence services, was arrested Wednesday morning at his parents ‘ home at Domont (Val d’oise) and placed for 48 hours in custody in the premises of the ISB in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), before being presented Friday morning at the justice.

“Suspicion of passage to the act”

“there was a suspicion of passage to the act,” noted a source close to the investigation. In police custody, “he was assured that he would have given up his project,” she added.

The minor

was in contact via e-mail Telegram with Rashid Kassim, a jihadist French suspected of téléguider his followers at a distance from the area iraq-syria. It was also in connection, via the encrypted network, with a teenager arrested on 14 September in the Twentieth arrondissement of Paris, also in connection with Kassim and suspected of having wanted to perpetrate a violent action. Finally, the schoolboy was “very present on Telegram where he hosted two channels which broadcast propaganda jihadist,” noted the source close to the investigation.

about A dozen teens arrested

in recent weeks, a dozen teenagers have been arrested for threats of attacks similar, under the influence of the propaganda of Rashid Kassim.

This last is suspected of having inspired more or less directly the murder of a police officer and his girlfriend on the 13th of June in Magnanville (Yvelines), and that of a priest killed in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) on July 26. It would also have driven the projects to the attacks of a commando of women arrested in early September after the discovery of a car loaded gas tanks to Paris.

the arrests come at a time when, according to Prime minister Manuel Valls, the terrorist threat is “maximum” in France, has been affected for 2015 by a series of terrorist attacks resulting in 238 deaths.

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