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Islamist who planned to attack French synagogue jailed
2017-07-06
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Chebab, who said he planned to ’smoke some Jews’ at the Grand Synagogue of Marseille, sentenced to to two years in prison

A Moslem man who said he was planning to attack the main synagogue of Marseille was sentenced to two years in prison.

A Marseille court sentenced Mohammed Chebab, 33, on Tuesday, a little over a year after he was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for praising the 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....
terrorist group, l’Express news site reported. He was convicted of supporting acts of terrorism.

Counterterrorism researchers monitoring jihadist circles in Marseille, a city in southern La Belle France, flagged Chebab, according to the report. After his arrest in May 2016, Chebab told law enforcement that he had been planning to travel to Syria to fight with jihadists there and to Belgium, to the heavily Moslem Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, to meet "brothers" there.

He also said he was planning to "smoke some Jews, at least three" at the Grand Synagogue of Marseille, l’Express reported. At the time of his arrest, Chebab cried out for "Allah" and yelled slogans supportive of the Islamic State, promising the coppers who seized him that he would behead their children.

Separately, a 23-year-old man was charged with plotting to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron at La Belle France’s Bastille Day parade in Gay Paree, a judicial source told the AFP news agency on Monday.

The self-described nationalist, who was arrested last week, told Sherlocks he wanted to kill Macron at the July 14 national day march, a source close to the investigation said. He said he also wanted to attack "Moslems, Jews, blacks, homosexuals," the source added.
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