A 17 -year -old teenager, suspected of having fomented a violent action, presented to an anti -terrorist judge – Liberation
A 17-year-old adolescent, arrested on Monday in Haute-Saône and then placed in police custody, was presented Thursday March 13 to an anti-terrorist investigating judge in Paris for suspicions of draft violent action, AFP learned from sources close to the investigation, confirming information from Parisian and franceinfo. The suspect was arrested « Wearer of a knife », According to one of these sources, in front of a school, specifies the station. The suspect, who claims to be the Islamic State group according to these two media, considered « Jewish or Christian targets », But this project remained however « Not very specific », underlined this source.
At the end of his interrogation Thursday of first appearance, the magistrate will decide whether or not the teenager under examination, in this judicial information open for association of criminal terrorist criminals, confirmed the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT). According to our colleagues, the young man had been followed by territorial information for radicalization between 2022 and the beginning of 2024. His follow -up had resumed in March 2025, after the Directorate General of Internal Security had raised his intention to take action in a conversation on encrypted messaging.
The public prosecutor has requested its placement in pre -trial detention. Future investigations, « Entrusted to the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) (…), will confirm the exact targets of the draft violent action and its imminence », underlined the PNAT. The prosecution took up the procedure on Tuesday, first opened by the Vesoul prosecution.
This is the « first » draft violent action thwarted in 2025, said the PNAT again. Previous attacks in France date from January, when a 32 -year -old man had Wounded with a knife a person shouting « Allah Akbar » In an Apt supermarket (Vaucluse). Then from February, when a Algerian national killed a passer -by near a market in Mulhouse.
