[ALLAFRICA] Two Moroccan nationals deported by La Belle France last month were planning major terror attacks in the eastern French city of Metz, according to a Moroccan paper. They were in contact with the 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....
(IS) gang and planned to attack a restaurant and a gay nightclub and use vehicles to run down pedestrians, as in the Bastille Day attack in Nice, the Arab-language daily Assabah reports.
The two men, Redouane Dahbi and Ayyoub Sadki, planned to attack the Place de la République in the heart of Metz, Assabah claims without naming any sources.
IS had promised to provide them with weapons to commit the attacks, in particular against nightclubs frequented by young people, it says, adding that Dahbi was planning to attack a big restaurant in the town centre and L'Endroit, a gay nightclub.
That attack would have been an attempt to emulate June's attack that killed 50 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
The pair also intended to set fire to buildings with a large number of residents and to drive vehicles into crowds, as Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did in Nice, Assabah says.
The pair were extradited to Morocco on 26 August at the request of the Moroccan authorities, who "saved La Belle France from a fatal blow", according to the daily.
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