(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday vowed that no community would be allowed to take the law into its own hands after police thwarted a bid by Chechens to violently avenge an alleged assault on a member of their community.
Three men originating from the Russian region in the northern Caucasus were detained after being found in the northeastern French town of Saint-Dizier with a vast stock of cold weapons including knifes, clubs and a sabre.
They have been accused of organising an armed act of revenge and are due Sunday to appear before an investigating magistrate who will decide whether to press charges.
“No community on the soil of the republic can take the law into its own hands,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on a visit to Saint-Dizier, hailing the police for “avoiding the worst” with their intervention.
