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French police arrest group on Islamist attack suspicions
2016-03-17
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French anti-terrorism police jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
a small group with Islamist bully boy ties on Wednesday, suspecting one of them they may have been planning an attack in Gay Paree, La Belle France’s interior minister said.

"We have information about one person that suggests that he could undertake violent actions in La Belle France," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, adding the man was thought to have ties with ISIS in Syria.

"This person was arrested this morning along with people linked with him," Cazeneuve said, warning however against jumping to the conclusion that an attack was imminent as checks were underway.

Earlier TF1 television reported that three men and one women were arrested at dawn in Gay Paree and at the nearby northern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis on suspicions they were planning an imminent attack.

Police also seized an unused cartridge for an automatic rifle and computer equipment, TF1 said on its web site.

The investigation was focused in particular in a 28-year-old Frenchie who had been under house arrest since Feb. 29 under a state of alert in effect in La Belle France since Islamist forces of Evil killed 130 people in a series of attacks last November.

The man, a French citizen, was sentenced to five years in prison in March 2014 after he was arrested two years earlier when he tried to leave La Belle France for Syria. He was released in October 2015, TF1 reported.

His partner was also arrested along with two French brothers of Turkish origin.

The arrests came a day after Belgian police rubbed out a 35-year-old Algerian during a raid on a Brussels apartment in the hunt for clues to bloody attacks in Gay Paree last November.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Alan. Mes apologies. I was asking facetiously, making fun of the headline. Or, if they got the wording from the cops....
People will say from time to time that one or another French cop outfit is tough as nails. That's apparently the case when it comes to things which we would consider covered by the Bill of Rights. But.... I dunno about the rest of it.
Speaking of tough, which I just hauled into the conversation: Back when the three Americans on vacation thwarted a horrible massacre on the Thalys train, I had some time to look around. Not much from the prog sites. IMO, they know the ideal prog guy couldn't have done that, wouldn't have done that, wouldn't have been raised to do that, and if it happened and he survived, he'd want therapy. So they're kind of embarrassed by the whole thing. The non-ideal guys took care of business. It is...hey, look! A squirrel! In fact, it's a problematic squirrel.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2016-03-17 21:25  

#5  #3 Pappy wins the thread! :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2016-03-17 15:53  

#4  Must be one of those Carl Gustavs we were talking about the other day.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-03-17 13:27  

#3  I dunno about you, but my laptop is configured for 9mm.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-03-17 12:58  

#2  Richard, not an expert and if I'm wrong I'm sure I'll get corrected, but the only way is by the caliber and then you're assuming no custom gun-smithing. No way at all to tell difference between semi/full auto.

AK47s use a 7.62X39 and I don't know of any other type of gun that uses that. CZ I think, makes a semi-auto in that caliber but that goes to my point above.

EG .22 LR cartridges can be used in anything from derringers to full auto guns. So no way to tell at all.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-03-17 07:16  

#1  ""an unused cartridge for an automatic rifle and computer equipment""
Can you tell if an unused cartridge is for an automatic rifle? And I think we need a comma in there.
WRT cartridges; where there's one there may be more, or, unfortunately, may have been more.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2016-03-17 06:44  

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