A young man arrested for an attack project after having radicalized – Liberation
The investigation will now focus on determining the degree of progress of This attack project. A young man was indicted on Sunday April 6 in the evening in Paris, for association of terrorist criminals and detention of explosive product and then placed in pre -trial detention, said the National Anti -Roriste Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), confirming information from RTL And The Parisian.
According to RTL, he is 19 years old and lives in Dunkirk (North). The suspect claimed on the Internet his membership in the jihadist movement. During the search at his home, the investigators would have found an artisanal vest full of firecrackers connected to each other as well as a firing device. He would also have got hold of documents explaining how to prepare From the TATP, the explosive signature of the Islamist attacks.
According to The Parisianthe young man had written an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State group and would have considered attacking a public place. « Several targets » appear in this text, according to RTL: « A home for young people from the North, a restaurant, a nightclub or a site belonging to the Jewish community ». According to the radio, the investigators still ignore whether the young man had really already chosen one of these targets.
His arrest led to the arrest of two people around him. One of them, 21, is suspected of having provided him with a dummy weapon that he exhibited on social networks, according to press information. He too is indicted for association of terrorist criminals and holding explosive product, and was placed in pre -trial detention.
« My client is not radicalized and has no jihadist thesis »retorted his lawyer for RTL Ghilaci to RTL, believing that « The offense of association of terrorist criminals lacks legal rigor ». A third man was indicted for non-denunciation of a terrorist crime and placed under judicial supervision, according to the same source.
Mid-March, A 17 -year -old teenagerarrested in Haute-Saône, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention. He is suspected of having thrown a violent action « during Ramadan ». Me Ghilaci, who is also his lawyer, said he wanted « Put an end to your life to stop a deep discomfort » and no « Make a terrorist action ». On February 26, an Algerian man – who presented a profile « schizophrenic »According to the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau – was also put in examination for terrorist assassination and placed in pre -trial detention, after having killed a passer -by in Mulhouse (Haut -Rhin) and injured six other people.
