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“Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5).
Three indicted after plan for violent action against Roma people
translated from “Trois mises en examen après le projet d’action violente contre des personnes roms,” Le Figaro, July 31, 2024:
Three 18-year-olds are suspected of having participated in the plan to kidnap and murder a father and son from the Traveler community.
Three young men were indicted by an anti-terrorism judge at the end of May, suspected of having participated in a plan to kidnap and murder two Roma people, AFP learned this Wednesday, July 31, from sources close to the case. Their plan was discovered by investigators while they were tracking down another violent plan, according to the same sources.
Aged 18, they are suspected of having participated in the plan to kidnap and murder a father and son belonging to the traveling community “using the codes of jihadist propaganda,” according to a police summary seen by AFP. They are also accused of having considered planting an Islamic State flag on a castle or burning down a police station, according to the police summary.
The codes of jihadist propaganda? That's a new term to me. It suggests that the Quran doesn't actually spell out the virtue of jihad. It's astounding what lengths the police and government will go to protect this insane ideology from being truely revealed as the dark ages madness that it has always been.
They were indicted for criminal terrorist association and then placed under judicial supervision at the end of May, according to several sources close to the case. This case, now two-part, began with the identity check of an 18-year-old in front of a CBD store, who was then arrested in July 2023. Investigators discovered the existence of a Snapchat group, where he discussed with other men the idea of attacking an employee of this store, whom they nicknamed “the Christian,” because he posted videos on the theme of religion, according to several sources close to the case.
Since his arrest, five other men have been indicted, these same sources indicated. Among them, a man, imprisoned, was wiretapped, according to one of these sources. Investigators then discovered that he seemed to be developing another violent project: one targeting Roma people. He spoke with the recently arrested suspects, comrades from his village in Gard, according to another source close to the case. In addition to his indictment on the “Christian” section, he was indicted this winter on this second section, according to a source close to the case. His lawyer, Orly Rezlan, declined to comment.
At the end of May, in police custody, one of the young people placed under judicial supervision explained that he had been “terrorized” by this man, who said he wanted to kill “gypsies” by “quoting the Qur’an” and wanted to distribute videos of him. His lawyer, Ilyacine Maallaoui, declined to comment. For Emanuel de Dinechin, another defense lawyer, “the investigating judge has a lot of work to do to differentiate the profiles in this case, where not all are involved to the same degree and not all are committed to an Islamist ideology.”
You can read this article and get most of the way through it thinking they are talking about a far-right organization rather than a Muslim, Jihadi gang. European news sources are still protecting terrorists over Europeans. Go figure!
Four arrested inDenmark, Netherlands
on suspicion of planning terror attacks
Three people were arrested in coordinated actions across Denmark and one person in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out “an act of terror,” Danish police said Thursday.
Flemming Drejer, operative head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, known by its acronym PET, said that Denmark was not changing the terror threat level, which has been at “serious,” the second-highest level, since 2010.
He added that the case had “threads abroad” and “was related to criminal gangs,” singling out the banned gang Loyal to Familia.
In January 2020, a Danish court upheld a nationwide police ban on the gang, saying that the LTF should be dissolved as illegal under Denmark’s constitution.
The gang had been behind gang feuds, violence, robberies, extortion and drug sales in the Danish capital and “had used violence and illegal means to achieve its goal,"the Copenhagen District Court said then. In September 2018, police in Denmark issued a temporary ban against the LTF and said anyone seen wearing its logo could face prosecution.
”Persons abroad have been charged," he said.
"It is a serious situation,” Drejer told a press conference, adding the arrests were “carried out in close collaboration with our foreign partners,” and said those arrested were part of “a network.”
Drejer added that the suspects would face a custody hearing within 24 hours, likely behind “double closed doors,” meaning that he could not give details about the case, any target or motive.
"This is extremely serious," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a European Union summit in Brussels. "It shows the situation we are in in Denmark. Unfortunately.”
“It is absolutely true when both (Denmark's intelligence agencies) say that there is a high risk in Denmark,” Frederiksen said. “It is of course completely unacceptable in relation to Israel and Gaza, that there is someone who takes a conflict somewhere else in the world into Danish society.”
Earlier this month, the European Union’s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, warned that Europe faces a “huge risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period due to the fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Fatal shootings in 2022, 2015
In July 2022, a gunman at a shopping mall in Copenhagen killed three people and injured seven. The man, who believed the victims were zombies, was sentenced in July to detention in a secure medical facility. He had been charged with murder and attempted murder in the rampage at the huge Field’s shopping center on the outskirts of Copenhagen.
In 2015, a 22-year-old D anish Muslim gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen.
Earlier this month, the Danish parliament passed a law making it illegal to desecrate any holy text, after a handful of anti-Islam activists carried out public desecrations of the Quran, sparking angry demonstrations in Muslim countries.
(AP)
Teachers in France should demand "danger pay"!
Pupil, 12, threatens teacher with knife as tensions simmer
in French schools
A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a kitchen knife in an apparent murder attempt at a school in northern France on Wednesday, prosecutors said, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.
No-one was injured in the incident during English class in the northwestern city of Rennes but prosecutors said that they have opened a criminal investigation into attempted murder.
"This morning, a pupil threatened a teacher with a knife during a lesson. The pupils, shocked, were immediately moved to safety," the local education authority said in a statement.
Born in 2011, the schoolgirl "came to class armed with a large knife with the apparent intention of killing her English teacher," said Rennes prosecutor Rennes Philippe Astruc.
"During the lesson, in class, she brandished the knife at the victim who fled running," before she was disarmed by staff of the Hautes Ourmes junior high school, he added.
At a later press conference, he showed drawings of the kitchen knife, which he said was 17 centimetres (6.7 inches) long.
The prosecutor said the girl was currently undergoing psychiatric examinations in hospital "which will allow us to shed further light on this situation."
He said it appeared that the "psychological or even psychiatric aspect" seemed to him "dominant in the act of this minor".
As it is with all radical Muslims who act out. Which is why they should all be segregated from sane society.
'Like Arras'
The suspect is the eldest of four children in a family of Mongolian origin, with residency in France and who arrived in Rennes in 2012.
There have been growing tensions in schools in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish communities, sometimes linked to the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Earlier this week teachers at a school outside of Parisrefused to work after a group of pupils objected to the showing in class of a painting by Renaissance master Giuseppe Cesari containing several nude women.
Meanwhile, a French court last week convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 killing of teacher Samuel Paty outside his secondary school near Paris by a radicalised Islamist.
Education Minister Gabriel Attal said he gave his "absolute support to the teacher" hailing "the immense courage and composure of the staff on site who were able to react to this threat".
"I appreciate the trauma that this attack constitutes for her (the English teacher) and for the entire teaching community."
A young girl from the school told AFP on condition of anonymity that there had been a dispute between the schoolgirl and the teacher who allegedly confiscated her cell phone last Friday.
She said the schoolgirl declared in front of her classmates that she was going to kill the teacher and "do like in Arras" but "no one took her seriously".
(AFP)
Take lunatics seriously people, even if the media doesn't!
An alleged Islamic State supporter who was arrested on charges of plotting terrorism also planned to kill gay men by luring them through dating websites, according to French media.
The 23-year-old Pakistani,(Pakistani, now that's a surprise; pfft!) who was arrested in June alongside his 21-year-old Chechen friend, came under the spotlight of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) intelligence agency at the beginning of the year, with the French bureau looking into his involvement in online Salafist circles.
Just before his arrest, at the end of May, authorities also discovered the suspect had used dating websites to contact young men, Le Parisian reported.
According to the newspaper, the Pakistani terrorist suspect – identified only as ‘AB’ – contacted 20 or so gay men through dating websites. He used a picture of a white male with blonde hair in his profile.
One of them told investigators that the Pakistani had called him offering oral sex, while speaking in a thick accent which didn't align with his profile picture. The man immediately became suspicious and called police.
AB has denied being gay or bisexual, and denies contacting any of the men who claim they received messages from him. “I am a practicing Muslim but against terrorism,” he told police.
Yes, and I always tell the truth, except, right now!
However, that claim doesn't align with something else authorities found – some 7,000 images of Islamic State atrocities, as well as cryptic Telegram messages referencing a “project” which he told others to be “discreet” about.
Meanwhile, AB's Chechen friend was found to own a ring with IS symbols on it, along with several knives and a makeshift firearm. When confronted by investigators, he said he “just wanted to be like Macgyver on TV,” referring to the on-screen American legend known for his unconventional problem solving.
The “project” allegedly being planned by the two suspects is one of at least five major terrorist plots to be thwarted by French authorities this year, according to Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who revealed that number in October.
Four people have been arrested in late night raids by Australia's counter-terrorism task force over an alleged plot to blow up a passenger plane, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed.
Police have obtained information that “some people in Sydney were planning to commit a terrorist attack using an improvised devise,” Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin told reporters.
The plot is believed to be related to “Islamic-inspired terrorism,” Colvin said. He did not specify if any terrorist groups, such as Islamic State, have been linked to the foiled attack.
The federal police are “investigating information indicating the aviation industry was potentially a target of that attack,” Colvin added.
He said there was no indication that airport security was “compromised” at any time.
"Four men have been taken into custody and are assisting police with their enquiries," the Australian Federal Police said in a statement.
"The public should be reassured that our security and intelligence agencies are working tirelessly to keep us safe," PM Turnbull said in a statement as cited by Reuters.
Security at Sydney airport was stepped up Thursday in anticipation of a potential attack, with similar measures implemented at airports across the country.
Australia's terrorism threat remains at the same “probable” level as it was prior to the raids.
Turnbull advised travellers to expect delays due to increased airport security but said there was no imminent danger.
"Some of the measures will be obvious to the public, some will not be — those travelling should go about their business with confidence," Turnbull said, as cited by Reuters.
"The office of transport security has advised security screening will take longer, and travellers should arrive at terminals at least two hours before flights to allow ample time for screening.
"They should limit the amount of carry-on and checked baggage, as this will help to ensure that security screening is efficient."
Last week, Turnbull released an online video statement in which he announced major reforms of Australia’s counter terrorism agencies.
London police arrested three women on Monday, charging them with terrorism-related offenses.
Their arrests are part of a roundup in what the Metropolitan Police said was the foiling of a terrorist
plot, in which a man was arrested Thursday and a woman was shot. File Photo by Will Oliver/EPA
UPI -- London police announced the arrest Monday of three women in connection with an anti-terrorist operation in which one person was shot last week.
The three unidentified women, two aged 18 and one 19, were detained after a raid on a home by the London Police Counter-Terrorism Command, and questioned on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts.
The arrests in east London are connected to a counter-terrorism raid on a home on Thursday in which a woman was shot and a man was taken into custody. The woman, 21, was discharged Sunday from a hospital, and immediately arrested on terrorism charges.
A man, Mohamed Amoudi, 21, was arrested, and police later said he was questioned about his plans to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State.
Police also detained a man on Thursday near the Parliament building in London in what it called a "targeted and intelligence-led arrest." A bag of knives was found near him.
Six others were arrested in connection to Thursday's actions, bringing the total to 10, in what Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu confirmed was the blocking of an active terror plot.
Residents stand outside an apartment building in the southern region of Montpellier, France, where four terror suspects were taken into custody on Friday. French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux confirmed four people have detained by French anti-terrorism forces found bomb-making materials. Photo by Alexandre Dimou/EPA
Feb. 10 (UPI) -- French police arrested four individuals, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of plotting a suicide attack on an unnamed tourist destination, prosecutors said Friday.
The arrests came in the southern Montpellier region of France, after police raided an apartment belonging to the group. In addition to the teenage girl, three men ages 20, 23 and 26 were taken into custody in two more raids in the area.
An apartment in Clapiers, near Montpellier, where a terrorism suspect was arrested by French police.
Anti-terrorism officials said they seized a homemade explosive known as TATP, along with the three chemical ingredients used to create the explosive powder, in a makeshift laboratory in the apartment. The explosives were the same as the kind used in the 2015 Paris attack and last year's bombing at the airport in Brussels. Police were led to the suspects after they purchased acetone, one of the chemicals in TATP.
Police said the teen girl had made jihadist declarations online, including threats to carry out a terrorist attack in France and had pledged her allegiance to the Islamic State, the BBC reported.
