French security forces have detained 5 young suspects (4 of them being minors) for allegedly having expressed their desire to join the Islamic State group and carry out terrorist attacks. 3 of them were indicted, on July 11 & 12, as “leaders of a terrorist criminal association.” Two of them, aged 16 & 20, were placed in pre-trial detention this Friday. A 14-year-old minor was placed under judicial supervision.
According to French Interior Minister Darmanin, a minor was arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack on July 14th celebrations in Angers, France.
This announcement comes nearly two hours after French media announced four minors were arrested throughout the country over suspicions of planning terror attacks.
The National Anti-Terror Prosecutors Office confirmed to BFMTV that five suspects, four of which were minors have been indicted on terrorism charges over the past twenty-four hours. Their report reads below:
“Two of them, aged 16 and 20, were placed in pre-trial detention on Friday, July 12. The 14-year-old minor was placed under judicial supervision.
These three suspects were arrested earlier this week in the Île-de-France, Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions, before being placed in police custody on the premises of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine).”
Two of the suspects, a 17-year old boy and a 14-year old girl had married and pledged to go to Mozambique or Syria to join ISIS, before or after carrying out their attacks. The boy was arrested at the end of May.
This follows a slew of Islamic violence and thwarted plots in France in 2024, undoubtedly fueled by unfettered illegal migration and the results of the October 7th terrorism attack.