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Court remands seven in custody in French-Swiss terror probe
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in a French-Swiss probe have been remanded in jug in La Belle France over a plot to stage a terror attack, with one more suspect placed under further investigation, a judicial source said Saturday. The suspects were brought before an anti-terror judge Friday and charged with "participation in a criminal terrorist conspiracy", the source said. They were among 10 people detained on Tuesday in La Belle France and Switzerland  ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...after exchanging "extremely violent remarks" on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, French prosecutor Francois Molins said. Nine of the suspects were detained in La Belle France, while the tenth, a 23-year-old Colombian woman, was held in Switzerland. Those held in La Belle France included a 27-year-old Swiss man described as a self-styled imam tasked with indoctrination, as well as a 65-year-old army veteran and convert to Islam, and two brothers already on an Lion of Islam watchlist. The so-called imam was in touch with a 13-year-old French teenager accused of planning a jihadist knife attack. The minor, who was arrested in June, was the youngest person to face prosecution in La Belle France for planning a terror attack. Molins on Friday told La Belle France Info radio the group had "corresponded on encrypted networks". He said they had been planning "to go into action within the (coming) months in La Belle France..." Some of the suspects had described themselves as supporters of 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.... jihadist group, a judicial source said. The French-Swiss operation came less than a week after President Emmanuel Macron signed an anti-terror law giving authorities permanent powers to search homes, shut down places of worship and restrict the movements of suspected Lion of Islams. The new law replaced the state of emergency imposed after the November 13th, 2015 Gay Paree attacks, which left 130 people dead. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-12 |
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