(AFP) France has charged two men aged 23 with terror offences after arresting them over a jihadism-inspired plot to attack crowded public spaces with knifes during the Christmas period, sources said Wednesday.
France’s domestic intelligence service, the DGSI, detained the pair in late November in separate locations outside Paris after information was received over an imminent attack, a judicial source and a source close to the case who asked not to be named told AFP.
They were then charged with terror-related offences on December 3 and remanded in custody, added the sources, confirming a report first published in the Le Parisien newspaper.
They had planned to attack people during the Christmas period in shopping centres, universities or in the street.
