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| Terror Charges for Suspected Accomplices in French Election Plot | |
| 2017-04-30 | |
| [AnNahar] Three men suspected of supplying guns for an attack plot thwarted ahead of the first round of La Belle France's presidential election have been charged with terror offences, a judicial source said. The foiled plan in the southern city of Marseille had sparked fears that the closing days of the campaign could be a target for holy warriors before the April 23 first round in the country's most unpredictable election in decades. The three men -- a 24-year-old Chechen refugee, as well as Kosovar brothers aged 19 and 35 -- were accused on Friday of participating in a terrorist conspiracy as well as weapons charges, the source said. Authorities believe they provided help to the alleged attack plotters, 23-year-old Clement Baur and Mahiedine Merabet, 29, notably by supplying weapons.
...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.... (IS) group flag. Baur and Merabet were charged Sunday with participating in a terrorist conspiracy, though authorities have not determined what the alleged plotters planned to target. Two days after their April 18 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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