(European Conservative) French police arrested and charged a teenager in connection with a planned terror campaign, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has confirmed.
The 17-year-old from Vesoul in Haute-Saône has been held since Thursday, March 13th. He is under investigation for “participation in a criminal conspiracy with a view to preparing one or more crimes of attack.”
After the boy was arrested for carrying a knife in a public place close to his school, his social media output led the authorities to reclassify his activities as terror-related. The youth claimed to be a member of Daesh and flagged up several prospective targets during Ramadan, including a church, a synagogue, and official U.S. or Israeli premises. These violent intentions were also made clear from reading the suspect’s account on the encrypted messaging service Telegram, PNAT said.
