[TheLocal-La Belle France] French police arrest a 16-year old in the eastern city of Strasbourg on Tuesday as part of an investigation into a suspected plot to attack security forces and possibly the presidential Elysee Palace, a judicial source told AFP. His arrest comes after three adults and another teenager were incarcerated
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on April 26 over plans to carry out what Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said would have been an "extremely violent terror attack".
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La Belle France's TF1 television said the fifth suspect was a high school student of Chechen origin who was arrested at his parents' home.
| One is Chechen? Then it is likely the others are at least from the former Soviet Union, if not also Chechen. |
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group, a claim confirmed by the judicial source.
"Several projects were envisioned, all against security forces," including those stationed outside the Elysee, the source said.
Of the four arrested initially, one is a 17-year-old who served a year in prison after being convicted of trying to join jihadist fighters in Syria in
2017.
The three others, aged 26, 38 and 39, were previously known to police, but only for petty crimes.
La Belle France remains on high alert since a wave of domestic jihadist attacks in 2015 which have killed more than 250 people.
At the end of March, two men were indicted in Gay Paree on suspicion of planning an attack on a school or a cop shoppe.