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New Year’s Eve Terror Plot Foiled, Radical Islamists Arrested
 [Breitbart] Three radical Islamists have been incarceratedYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in two separate counter-terrorism raids in southwestern La Belle France, one on suspicion of plotting a New Year’s Eve terror attack. The counter-terrorism raids were conducted on Monday and Tuesday night in the department of Haute-Garonne, south-west La Belle France, a region where several hundred radical Islamists are being monitored. The two operations are indicative of the level of eminent threat anticipated by French security agencies, reports La Dépêche. The first raid in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... resulted in the arrests of two men, aged 42, on suspicion of plotting attacks against coppers. Both were identified as radical Islamists and one profiled as a potential jacket wallah. Small arms and light weapons were also seized. Le Figaro reports the men were illegal The second raid in Cugnaux, 10 miles south-west of Toulouse, resulted in the arrest of a 30-year-old man as part of an investigation conducted by the antiterrorist prosecutor’s office in Gay Paree. The suspect "is known to [police] services, he is suspected of wanting to carry out an attack on Dec 31," a police source told Rooters. The man was known to several investigative units and had been subject to a search some months ago. Surveillance had been stepped up around this "potentially dangerous" target, a close source told La Dépêche. The Haute-Garonne prefecture confirmed that since 15 November 2015, two days after the terrorist attacks in Gay Paree and Saint-Denis, 55 searches had been carried out in Toulouse and its suburbs. According to a report published on 7 November 2016 by the Ministry of the Interior, more than 4,000 searches took place in one year, and 95 house arrests are still in force in the country. These searches ended in the seizure of nearly 600 firearms "of which 77 were weapons of war," confirmed then-Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-30 |
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