The two men were arrested on November 29 by the DGSI. At the end of their custody, they were indicted on December 3rd for “Association of Criminal Terrorist” and incarcerated.
Le Monde with AFP
Two 23-year-old men were indicted, Wednesday, December 8, and placed in pre-trial detention for scoring a “serious and imminent” project of “Jihadiste inspiration” knife attack, learned the Agence France-Presse (AFP) of judicial sources and close to the file.
The two men were arrested in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) and the CEEC (Yvelines), on November 29, by the Directorate General of Internal Security on the basis of information reporting on an attack imminent, specified these sources. This confirms Information from the Parisian . At the end of their custody, they were indicted on 3 December for “Association of criminal terrorist” and incarcerated.
“At least one of the two had a project passing by the end of the year,” AFP explained a source close to the file. “We have detected exchanges between themselves and elements letting us think that their project was serious and imminent,” said this source. Alerted, the national anti-terrorist floor has opened a preliminary inquiry.
Attack passers-by “around the Christmas period”
One of the suspects, which disputes the facts, “was sentenced as a minor by the Children’s Court in Paris in April 2019 to four years in prison, including thirty months with a reproductive stay. test, “said the source, adding that” he recognized his fascination “for the Islamic State organization,” but denied the draft attack. However, hearings in his entourage and other elements of the file attest. of its great radicality “.
The second individual has confessed in custody “A violent action project”, highlighted sources at AFP. “After several discussions on the operating mode, they decided to commit a knife attack in the street on civilians and dying in martyr being killed by the police,” said one of them, evoking “a project on djihadist inspiration, concerted to two, unlike previous projects that emanated from more isolated individuals “.
It was about attacking passers-by “around the Christmas period” in shopping centers, universities or on the street. The two men became aware of social networks and then physically met.
During searches have been seized a knife, phones and computers “in which we found jihadist documentation,” said a judicial source.