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Paris Olympics: 16-year-old arrested after he said he wanted to ‘die a martyr’ at Games France previously raised its security alert to its highest level ahead of hosting this summer's Olympic Games amid concerns the event could be overshadowed by security incidents.

April 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Sky News) A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by anti-terrorism police in France after he allegedly said on social media he wanted to “die a martyr” at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. A spokesperson said on Wednesday the boy was […]

Netherlands issues travel warning for France amid highest terror threat level

March 28, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a new warning for people traveling to France after the French government raised its domestic security threat level to its most heightened position. The assessment of “Emergency: Attack” was issued by Prime Minister […]

How Jewish journalist Ruth Elkrief wound up in the middle of France’s debate over antisemitism and Islamophobia

February 21, 2024 Shira Li Bartov

(JTA) The Jewish French-Moroccan journalist Ruth Elkrief — who has delivered TV news in France for over 30 years — found herself at the center of the story when she was placed under police protection in December. Elkrief received the security detail […]

Paris Olympics: 13 rejected for torch relay for drugs, Islamism

January 22, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French security forces have rejected 13 people who were selected to take part in the torch relay for the Paris Olympics, including some who had committed drugs offences as well as a suspected Islamist, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. […]

French police address fear factor ahead of the Olympic Games after a deadly attack near Eiffel Tower

December 8, 2023 Elaine Ganley

(AP) The bar was already high, but the security challenge ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games only grew with a knife attack last weekend that killed a tourist near the Eiffel Tower. Still, the assault at the hand of a suspected […]

Six French teens convicted over their roles in an Islamic extremist’s killing of a teacher

December 8, 2023 Angela Charlton

(AP) A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, an attack that shocked the country and shone a light on the real-world dangers of online hate speech. […]

Netherlands issues travel warning for Paris citing terrorism threats

December 8, 2023 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has raised the travel advisory level for Paris due to terrorist threats. Paris is now under a yellow travel advisory, indicating that travel is possible but not without risks. The rest of France maintains […]

ISIS propaganda seducing ‘new generation of teenagers’: French domestic intel Security chief warns Islamist ideology is likely to exist for a very long time to come.

December 6, 2023 Pierre Emmanuel Ngendakumana

(Politico) A new generation of French teenagers is being wooed by the Islamic State terrorist group — infamous for its on-camera immolations of captives in Iraq — and seems ominously susceptible to the group’s propaganda, according to the head of France’s DGSI […]

A French investigating judge hands terror-linked charges to a man accused of killing tourist

December 6, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) A man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower was placed under investigation Wednesday on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organization, the prosecutor’s office […]

‘Failure’ in psychiatric care of Paris attacker: minister

December 4, 2023 Tiphaine Le Liboux and Stuart Williams

(AFP) There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France’s interior minister said Monday. The attack close […]

Paris knife attacker ‘swore allegiance to Islamic State’

December 3, 2023 Stuart Williams

(AFP) The man who stabbed a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video posted to social media, French anti-terrorist prosecutors said Sunday. Known to the authorities as a radicalised Islamist […]

Biden tapped this group to fight anti-Semitism. It’s defending Hamas’s attack on Israel Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad called on the White House to condemn Israel

October 11, 2023 Chuck Ross

(Free Beacon) The Biden administration earlier this year tapped the Council on American-Islamic Relations for an initiative to curb anti-Semitism. This week, the anti-Semitic group and its leaders defended Hamas attacks that have killed more than 1,000 Jews. The White House announced […]

Oregon man pleads guilty to conspiring to support Islamic State extremists

June 13, 2023 Maxine Bernstein

(Oregonian) A man who immigrated to Oregon from Iraq in 2014 on Tuesday pleaded guilty to advocating for violent jihad through an online Arabic newspaper in support of the Islamic State terrorist group. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 33, who lives in Troutdale, was […]

Man jailed over drone plot against Barcelona-Madrid match

October 24, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A man who received orders from the jihadist Islamic State group to carry out a drone attack against a Barcelona-Real Madrid football match was sentenced Monday by a Spanish court to three years in jail. Mohammed Yassi Amrani, a former bar […]

Spain jails men who aided Barcelona attackers

May 27, 2021 Hazel Ward

(AFP) A Spanish court on Thursday handed jail terms of up to 53 years to three men who helped the jihadists behind the 2017 Barcelona attacks that killed 16 people. The Islamic State (IS) group claimed the bloodshed of August 17-18, 2017, […]

Mobile phone of Nice church terrorist reveals he planned to go to Paris

May 6, 2021 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris. The more than 2,000 text messages sent during Brahim Aouissaoui’s voyage from […]

Judges mull verdict in Barcelona attacks trial

February 17, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Spanish judges on Wednesday began deliberating a verdict in the trial of three men accused of helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16. The Islamic State (IS) group took responsibility for the […]

Protesters say French anti-radicalism law is anti-Muslim

February 14, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. French lawmakers hold a key […]

Trio on trial for aiding 2017 Barcelona attackers

November 10, 2020 Alvaro Villalobos and Daniel Silva

(AFP) Three men went on trial Tuesday for helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16 people and left 140 wounded. The Islamic State group took responsibility for the August 17-18 bloodshed, including a […]

Trio on trial for helping Barcelona jihadist attack cell

November 6, 2020 Daniel Bosque and Alvaro Villalobos

(AFP) Three men go on trial at Spain’s top criminal court Tuesday for helping the perpetrators of twin jihadist attacks in 2017 that killed 16 in Barcelona and a nearby seaside town. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bloodshed which […]

Oregon man accused of producing, distributing propaganda in support of ISIS

November 5, 2020 Maxine Bernstein

(Oregonian) A federal indictment unsealed Thursday accuses an Oregon man of advocating violent jihad in an online Arabic newspaper in support of the terrorist organization ISIS. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 31, of Troutdale was arrested Thursday morning, federal authorities said. Mothafar pleaded not […]

Spain marks third anniversary of deadly Catalonia attacks

August 17, 2020 Josep Lago

(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Monday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort three years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens […]