French police arrest 15-year-old suspected of planning terror attack

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French police arrest 15-year-old suspected of planning terror attack - France 24
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Paris suspected of preparing imminent "violent action", two judicial sources said, the second alleged plot with links to the Islamic State (IS) group discovered in France this week.

On Sunday September 4, a car loaded with gas cylinders was found near Notre Dame Cathedral alongside jerry cans of diesel, leading to the discovery of a plot to attack a Paris railway station under the direction of the IS group. Seven people, including four women, were arrested.

The boy had been under house arrest since France declared a state emergency after the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris in which IS group militants killed 130 people, two sources said on condition of anonymity. They did not say why he was under house arrest.

His arrest on Saturday came as he was planning an attack in a public place in the French capital, one of the sources said.

The police suspect him of plotting "to attack France in response to calls from Syria", one of the sources said.
(Put under house arrest since November 2015 - what were his connections to the attack then? Relative I would assume.)
 
French girl, 16, charged with allegedly supporting Islamic State
A judge has handed a 16-year-old French girl preliminary terrorism charges for allegedly supporting the Islamic State group and trying to perpetrate an attack, prosecutors have said.

The girl was using a social media app to spread calls by Isis to commit violent acts, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday.

The judge charged the teenager with taking part in a “criminal terrorist association” and “inciting to commit terrorist acts through an online communication medium”. She has been placed in custody.

The investigators said the girl was “extremely radicalised” and was the administrator of a chat group dedicated to Isis propaganda on the Telegram app, which has been used by suspected jihadis to communicate, deputy prosecutor Laure Vermeersch said. Vermeersch said no specific targets had been mentioned by the teenager, who had no prior criminal history. Her name wasn’t released.

In March, two girls aged 15 and 17 were charged with taking part in a criminal terrorist association for allegedly plotting to attack a target – possibly a Paris concert hall – in a copycat action of November’s Bataclan attack in the capital. But investigators acknowledged the plot was not in an advanced stage.
 
Third French teenager detained for suspected terrorist plot - France - RFI
A 15-year-old French boy has been arrested in Paris and remanded in custody on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, a source close to the investigation said on Friday.

He is the third French 15-year-old in just five days to have been remanded in custody and placed under formal investigation for terrorism.

According to the source, the teen had been in touch with Rachid Kassim – a French member of the Islamic State (IS) group who is wanted by the police - via the encrypted message forum Telegram. The teen expressed his willingness to carry out a terrorist atrocity to Kassim.

Appearing in front of judges on Friday, however, the source close to the investigation said the boy had shown another side to his character with the Parisian teenager readily admitting to being in contact with IS group member Kassim (

A judiciary source told the AFP news agency that a total of 37 minors are currently under formal investigation for terrorism in France, of which 14 – 11 boys and three girls – are in detention.
 
Authorities take teen in for questioning over fake Paris terror alert - France 24
French authorities took a teenager in for questioning on Monday over a false terror alert that mobilised dozens of police officers in Paris on Saturday. Two adolescents had been brazenly bragging about the hoax online.
For the two teenagers, age 16 and 17, who claim to be behind the call, the response surpassed their wildest dreams. They didn’t shy from bragging about the success online under the user names “Tylers Swatting” and “Zakhaev Yamaha”.

The two teens also corresponded online with several French journalists on Saturday, telling them they “did it to go viral”.

They also claimed they would continue outsmarting the authorities.

“We aren’t traceable”, they wrote. “We use encrypted servers. We are at least two hours away from Paris and we aren’t afraid of the police.”

On Sunday, the Facebook accounts used by the teens to communicate— “Tylers Swatting” and “Taylers WB”— were both closed.

 
Police in France arrest teenagers in Nice on suspicion of terrorism | Middle East | DW.COM | 25.09.2016
Police said they had arrested two teenage women in mid-September in the French city of Nice on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in the country, said the Paris prosecutors' office on Sunday.

"They were incited to commit an attack on specific targets in retaliation for the recent death of the Daesh's spokesman," a source close to the investigation told the French newspaper "Le Parisien," referring to the "Islamic State" militant group by its Arabic acronym.

The women, aged 17 and 19, confessed to considering an attack on French soil, but reportedly abandoned the idea, "Le Parisien" added.

They were from the same neighborhood in Nice as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the Tunisian man who killed 86 people in July when he drove a truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.

In September, the French intelligence agency, General Directorate for Internal Security, arrested four other teenagers suspected of plotting attacks in France.
 
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...ttack-threat-15-year-old-student-charged.html
A 15-year-old high school student was charged and held Friday on suspicion of wanting to commit a terror attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French militant, a judicial source said.

The teenager was charged over criminal associations with a terrorist group, the source said.

The minor had been in contact using Telegram - the encrypted messaging app popular among French radicals - with Rachid Kassim, a French jihadist based in the areas of Syria and Iraq held by the ISIS.

The adolescent, who was not previously known to intelligence services, was taken in for questioning early Wednesday from his parents house in Domont and held in police custody for 48 hours before appearing before the court Friday morning.

“There was a suspicion he was going to commit an act,” said one source close to the investigation, adding that the minor had said while in custody that he had abandoned the plan.

In the last few weeks, around ten adolescents have been held as the authorities scramble to tamp down home-grown militant violence that is increasingly drawing in teens.

The 15-year-old charged Friday was “very active on the Telegram messenger, where he liked two stations that broadcast militant propaganda”, said a source close to the enquiry.

He was also in contact, using the encrypted messaging service, with another teenager - himself in touch with Kassim - who was arrested September 14 in Paris on suspicion of wanting to commit a violent attack.