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Nine held in anti-terror raids across France plus one in Switzerland as 'attack is thwarted'
[TheLocal.fr] Nine suspects were tossed in the calabooseDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in a series of anti-terror operations carried out around La Belle France on Tuesday, with French media reporting a planned attack on the city of Nice had been thwarted. The raids took place in the greater Gay Paree region of Île-de-La Belle France and the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur region of the south east. According to reports some nine individuals aged between 18 and 60-years-old were arrested in the raids carried out by La Belle France's specialist counter-terrorist police. The arrests were reportedly made in the Val-de-Marne department to the south west of Gay Paree, Seine-Saint-Denis to the capital's north, the city of Aix-en Provence, north of Marseille and the town of Menton, on the border with Italia. Those held included two brothers who were known to have been radicalised, sources told AFP. An arrest was also made in Switzerland  ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...which brought the total number of suspects held to 10. The 27-year-old man arrested in Switzerland was in contact with a 14-year-old French boy who was "about to carry out the attack," one of the sources said. The teenager was arrested in the Gay Paree region on June 20 and charged by an anti-terror judge, the sources said. A photo of the boy holding a paper vowing his allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group was found on social media, they added. The Swiss man was "particularly active on social networks... and he had contacts with individuals living in La Belle France with whom he notably discussed violent actions," a judicial source said. According to BFM TV those arrested are suspected of planning and preparing a terror attack. The suspects exchanged "disturbing remarks" on the Telegram encrypted messaging app, the sources said, adding that Sherlocks were seeking to "determine what they were plotting". It is not clear at this stage what their intentions were nor how far down the line their plans were, but according to Le Gay Pareeien newspaper, which first broke the news of the raids, the suspects planned to target the Riviera city of Nice, where 86 people were killed in the Bastille Day truck attack in 2016. Quoting its own sources close to the probe Le Gay Pareeien said the intentions of the suspects had "become firm". Authorities in La Belle France have not confirmed Nice was indeed the target. La Belle France remains on high alert for terror attacks and last week the Minister of Interior Gerrard Collomb claimed that 32 attacks had been foiled since the State of Emergency was declared the night of the November 2015 shootings and bombing in Gay Paree.
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