This is another example of the internal threat posed by terrorism in France. According to BFMTV, a 14-year-old teenager will be brought before an anti-terrorism investigating judge to be charged with ” creating a criminal organisation to prepare attacks on persons”.
The boy, who lives in northern France, is suspected of having planned an attack on the Euralille shopping centre in Lille, whose blueprints he had obtained from the Internet.
According to our information, he also expressed his desire to carry out an attack at his school together with a friend in exchange with four strangers via the Telegram platform chat rooms in order to “avenge the prophet who was caricatured”.
He also watched Islamic State propaganda videos, as well as videos on how to make explosive devices. He also stated that he was “ready” to attack people with a “stabbing weapon”.
The teenager also expressed his support for the Islamic State to the same contacts on various encrypted platforms and motivated them to join him in order to “commit an attack”. (…)
In police custody, the young man said he had attended a mosque in the municipality of Waziers before admitting to having “watched videos containing jihadist propaganda”. He stated that he had suggested to a certain “Abu Abdallah” that he should attack the Euralille shopping centre with “long weapons”.
During his interrogation, he explained that the exchange and the planned act of violence were the result of “pure curiosity”. BFMTV