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| French attack threat: 15-year-old student charged | |
| 2016-10-02 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A 15-year-old high school student was charged and held Friday on suspicion of wanting to commit a terror attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French bad boy, a judicial source said. The teenager was charged over criminal associations with a terrorist group, the source said. The minor had been in contact using Telegram - the encrypted messaging app popular among French bully boyz - with Rachid Kassim,
y The adolescent, who was not previously known to intelligence services, was taken in for questioning early Wednesday from his parents house in Domont and held in police custody for 48 hours before appearing before the court Friday morning. "There was a suspicion he was going to commit an act," said one source close to the investigation, adding that the minor had said while in jug that he had abandoned the plan. In the last few weeks, around ten adolescents have been held as the authorities scramble to tamp down home-grown bad boy violence that is increasingly drawing in teens. Kassim, a 29-year-old former social worker from the Loire valley who has appeared in several IS propaganda videos, is believed to have been a key influence on many of the youths. The 15-year-old charged Friday was "very active on the Telegram messenger, where he liked two stations that broadcast bad boy propaganda", said a source close to the enquiry. He was also in contact, using the encrypted messaging service, with another teenager - himself in touch with Kassim - who was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! September 14 in Gay Paree on suspicion of wanting to commit a violent attack. Islamic French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said the terror threat was at a "maximum" and that the authorities were foiling attacks and smashing jihadist networks "every day". Valls said that around 15,000 people were known to police in La Belle France as having been radicalised, up from a previous estimate of 10,000. | |
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