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| France anti-terrorism raids lead to 5 arrests | ||
| 2017-05-03 | ||
| [DW] French authorities have detained five men and seized weapons in anti-terrorist operations across the country. Security is tight after recent Islamist attacks and the upcoming presidential runoff. Anti-terrorism squads jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! five people across La Belle France on Tuesday, just days before the second round of the presidential election. The raids took place in towns near the cities of Rouen and Lille in northern La Belle France, and in Roanne in the central part of the country. The suspects are between 18 and 24 years old. Weapons were also seized during the raids, including pistols and machine guns, a source told the Agence La Belle France-Presse. The guns belonged to a man close to one of the suspects, who legally owned the weapons. The raids come just two weeks after a deadly attack on a French policeman on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Gay Paree. The so-called "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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... " (IS) grabbed credit for the attack. It is not certain if Tuesday's raids were in relation to the election on Sunday or the April 20 attack.
Police made the arrests on Tuesday morning in Roanne in central La Belle France, and also in Rouen and Villeneuve-d'Ascq in the north (marked on the map below as 2, 1 and 3 respectively). It's understood that officers seized heavy firearms at the raid in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, reported Le Gay Pareeien newspaper.
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four men and one woman and seized weapons in raids just days before the presidential election run-off, sources say. Two pistols and two machine guns found during one of the raids, a source close to the case says. Some of the suspects were in touch on social media or the internet and some of their messages made authorities fear they were planning violent acts, the source adds. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 some of their messages made authorities fear they were planning violent acts Social media text mining, legal weapons, not CT. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-03 16:02 |