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A chemical attack was in preparation in France
Scuse the Henglish. This is a translation from the French articleLooks like the pressure is being applied pretty heavily on France. Whatâs the betting that Chirac's order on the hijab will be rescinded within a month It is the conclusion which would have reached the policemen of the DST, some days after the interpellations intervened in the region of Lyons within the framework of the inquiry on the "Chechen fields". The detainees it dedicated as well "to the recruitment of future fighters", according to Le Monde. L be policemen of the DST (Direction(management) of the surveillance of the territory), which(who) called to several persons this week in region of Lyons within the framework of the inquiry on the support for the " Chechen fields ", are convinced that a chemical attempt was in preparation in France, according to the daily The World was dated Sunday - Monday. The newspaper asserts that the policemen are convinced that " the family of the imam Chellali Benchellali dedicated itself actively to the preparation of highly toxic products for their distribution(broadcasting) as well as for the recruitment of future Islamist fighters ". The justice also suspects Chellali Benchellali - an imam of district who is the father of Mourad, held(detained) in Cuba, and by Ménad, imprisoned in France to have supplied a logistic support for the members of an operational terrorist group dismantled in December, 2002 to Romainville and to Courneuve ( Seine-Saint-Denis). The Benchellali family and his(her) close relations would have supplied false papers, money(silver), explosives and places of residence to the members of this network which prepared probably one or several attempts, certainly chemical, in Paris against Russian targets, according to the judicial sources. Besides, a girl of Chellali Benchellali was placed in police custody on Friday within the framework of this inquiry, while the imam of Vénissieux (Rhone) and five other persons called on Tuesday are placed under the blow of an arrest warrant to be presented on Monday to a committing magistrate in Paris, as it was learnt on Friday from judicial sources. A seventh person who had been stopped(arrested) on Tuesday by the DST (Direction(management) of the surveillance of the territory), Fatna Merabet, the wife of the new imam of Vénissieux in suburb of Lyons, should be set again at liberty at the conclusion of her police custody, as it was clarified the same sources. When a person is called in more of 200km of the place of the instruction, she can be maintained in detention at the conclusion of her police custody for a duration of four days under the blow of an arrest warrant. It is the case of the six concerned persons whose police custody of 96 hours(oâclock) expires on Saturday morning. They will be presented on Monday to the antiterrorist committing magistrates with the aim of their indictments. On the whole, nine persons, among which a woman, had been indicted the end of December, 2002 in this said file " Chechen fields ". Among them, Ménad Benchellali, indicted for " criminal conspiracy in connection with one terrorist company ". His brother Mourad, him, is at present detained on the American base of Guantanamo in Cuba. It(he) had left France to study the Koran in Pakistan in June, 2001. Chellali Benchellali, his wife Hasfa and their third son, Hafed, the new imam of the big mosque of Vénissieux, Mourad Merabet, and a 27-year-old young man, Abdelwahed Regad, who was used(employed) as controller quality on a hallal slaughterhouse, as well as the sixth person will be transferred on Monday in Paris. These arrests on rogatory commission of the committing magistrate Jean Louis BruguiÚre provoked of numerous demonstration to Vénissieux where from is also native another prisoner of Guantanamo, Nizar Sassi. The representative - mayor of Vénissieux, André Gérin congratulated himself for his part of these interpellations and wished the lock of the Moslem places of prayer situated in cellars and feet of buildings of the conglomeration of Lyons. AP Posted by: tipper 2004-01-10 |
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