(AFP) France has detained and charged an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning an imminent attack with a knife in the name of Islamic State (IS) jihadists, a judicial source said Wednesday.
Initial investigations indicated that he planned to carry out an attack “in the name of IS, to which he had pledged allegiance,” said the source, who asked not to be named.
The source added that the man had been detained in the Drome region of southeast France by France’s DGSI domestic intelligence agency, and indicted in Paris on charges of “terrorist conspiracy to prepare one or several attacks against people.”
“Thanks to the DGSI agents who were able to detain an individual who was planning an Islamist attack this weekend,” which begins with a Thursday bank holiday to mark the Ascension, a main Catholic feast day, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin posted on Twitter.
