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France arrests new suspect in foiled terror plot
2016-12-11
[Ynet] French judicial authorities have locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
and charged a sixth suspect in a foiled bully boy plot to attack sites in the Gay Paree region, a judicial source said on Saturday.

La Belle France has been under a state of emergency since a wave of Islamist attacks last year, giving police wider powers, and the arrests come at a sensitive time ahead of next spring's presidential elections in which security will be a major theme.

The 31-year old suspect has been placed in preventive detention and accused of cooperation with "criminal terrorists" and of having supplied weapons to his accomplices, the source said.

Five other men suspected of being part of the plot are in jug after simultaneous police swoops last month in the southern port city of Marseille and in Strasbourg in northeast La Belle France. Investigators uncovered a plan to attack a Gay Paree metro station and the Disneyland theme park east of Gay Paree in the name of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, the judicial source said.

More than 230 people have been killed in Islamist bully boy attacks on French soil since January 2015, including 130 in [coordinated attacks in Gay Paree November 13, 2015.]

France to extend national state of emergency until July

[IsraelTimes] PM Cazeneuve
...the new prime minister. The old PM stepped down to run as the Socialist candidate for president next year, since President Hollande's deep unpopularity convinced him retirement is a better idea...
. says 17 attacks thwarted so far this year, extension ‘absolutely necessary’ to ensure citizens’ safety ahead of election year.

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