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French Police: Detained Islamists Plotted Kidnap
2012-04-01
[AFP] Seventeen people jugged by French police in a crackdown on suspected Islamist networks might have been plotting a kidnap, the head of the police intelligence's unit said Saturday.

"They appeared to be preparing a kidnap," Bernard Squarcini of the Central Directorate for Domestic Intelligence (DCRI) told La Provence newspaper.

He did not elaborate on the alleged plot, but said the group was made up of "Frenchies" who were involved in "collective war-like training, linked to a violent, religious indoctrination."

Some of those incarcerated belonged to a suspected cut-throat group called Forsane Alizza,
...Knights of Pride, they are were a soft jihad organization which aimed by public spectacle to remind the kufrs of France of their approaching dhimmitude. First noticed by the public when they invaded a Limoges McDonalds to shout antisemitic slogans in 2010, they subsequently got in the habit of leading prayer services in the streets, to block traffic. It is estimated there are only about 100 cadres, though recently they have been advertising for new members. The interior ministry banned them in February of this year for encouraging their fellow citizens to join the jihad in Afghanistan, as a result of which they seem to have decided to move on to more exciting pursuits...
he said.

"The group was dissolved as of February 29 and the funds of 26 of its members were frozen, but they continued to carry out physical training exercises in parks and woods and sought weapons," Squarcini told the Marseille-based newspaper. They were involved in paintball gun games, he said.

The arrests on Friday took place in several cities, including Toulouse, where cut-thoat gunman Mohamed Merah was rubbed out by police last week after a series of cold-blooded shootings that left seven dead, including three Jewish children.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
 said the arrests were not directly linked to the Merah case, but he has called on police to increase its surveillance of "radical Islam" in what the opposition has described as a vote-catching move just a month ahead of a presidential election.

In the course of the latest arrests, police recovered "several computers, sim cards, weapons, money, 10,000 euros in small notes, four Kalashnikov rifles, eight rifles, seven or eight handguns, a taser, tear gas grenades," Squarcini said.

Those jugged were still being held on remand Saturday, police said.
CNN reports their lawyer says they're all innocent of everything.
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