Two young people aged 17 and 19 are to be charged in a trial requested by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat), as Le Figaro reports. They are accused of having planned an attack on a pub in Lyon belonging to the Génération identitaire movement. The judiciary is demanding that the suspects be tried for terrorist criminal organisation and glorification of terrorism. In the case of the minor, there are also death threats in connection with a terrorist organisation. In fact, an informant infiltrated a group on the encrypted messenger Telegram where the two people came together. He learnt that the younger one did not know how to handle weapons, that he had threatened to behead an identitarian activist on social networks and had founded a Telegram group called ‘Islamic State France’. The older one tried to travel to Syria, but was unsuccessful. The 19-year-old suspect then decided to organise an attack on French soil. The young men also made contact with members of Oumar Diaby’s jihadist group. In their internet exchanges, they threatened to attack the police, the military, Jews, transsexuals and identitarians. The suspects deny the accusations made against them. They explained that they had wanted to ‘impress’ and ‘make a name for themselves’.
These people were arrested in Yvelines in March 2023 before being charged and subsequently detained.
Recently, the 17-year-old was placed under judicial supervision after 13 months in pre-trial detention.
We need to start forming legal groups dedicated to opposing the spread of Sharia Law, and press politicians to stop appeasing Islamic terrorist political infiltration.