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Terror charges filed against suspects in French election plot
2017-04-24
[IsraelTimes] Police seized weapons and explosives in arrest of two men charged with planning an attack ahead of Sunday’s presidential vote.

The two men suspected of plotting an "imminent" attack ahead of La Belle France’s presidential election were charged Sunday with terror offenses, prosecutors said.

The foiled plot in Marseille sparked fears that the closing days of the campaign could be a target for bully boyz ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in the country’s most unpredictable election in decades.

Elite police and intelligence agents locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
the two Frenchies -- 23-year-old Clement Baur and Mahiedine Merabet, 29 -- on Tuesday in the Mediterranean port city.

Gay Paree prosecutors said the men are accused of participating in a terrorist conspiracy as well as weapons charges.

After searching the suspects’ shared Marseille apartment, authorities said they uncovered an Uzi sub-machine gun, pistols, seven pounds of TATP explosives and a homemade grenade as well as an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group flag.

Police had been searching for them since April 12, following the interception of a video in which they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
They found them pretty quickly -- tres bien, guys.
The men had used a number of aliases, switched mobile phones frequently, and used pre-paid bank cards to evade police.

Two days after the arrests, 39-year-old Karim Cheurfi rubbed out a policeman on Gay Paree’s Champs Elysees avenue before being killed by police gunfire.
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