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Both were behind bars for non-terror offenses and are suspected of being radicalized while serving their sentences. They were charged Friday with being part of a terrorist conspiracy.
The Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian, 28, who was due to be released Tuesday, confirmed to Sherlocks that he was planning on carrying out an attack, a source said.
The Frenchie, 22, was due to be released next week.
Terror Sherlocks moved to arrest them after a 44-year-old man from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, who was in contact with the pair, indicated he was "planning on heading to the mainland to offer them logistical support."
Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said Tuesday that La Belle France urgently needed to stop prisoners from being radicalized behind bars.
"What was revealed yesterday is testament to the urgency of the situation," she told Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
1 radio.
In August, a radicalized prisoner attacked two guards at the Osny prison north of the capital in what was seen as La Belle France's first jihadist assault within a jail.
The prisoner, who was behind bars for attempting to travel to jihadist-held territory in Syria, told Sherlocks he "wanted to kill a prison guard" in the name of IS.
La Belle France has suffered a string of jihadist attacks over the past two years that have left more than 240 people dead.
Some of those responsible were involved in Islamist networks in jail, including Cherif Kouachi, one of the button men who attacked satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...in January 2015, and his friend Amedy Coulibaly who killed four at a Jewish supermarket two days later.
Fresnes is one of three French prisons under special watch for radicalization, where prisoners are assessed for signs of extremism before their arrival.