On Thursday December 12 at 07:15 pm in Reims, a person was seen throwing a pyrotechnic object at the front of a bakery, Valeurs actuelles was told by a police source. He then entered the shop and threw other pyrotechnic objects in the direction of the people present. During his attack, he made terrorist remarks and threatened to return armed with an assault rifle to kill everyone, referring to the Israeli conflict.
At 07:35 pm, the thirty-eight-year-old man, who holds Algerian citizenship and is registered in the TAJ file ( criminal record) but is unknown in the RT (‘ secret service’) registers, was arrested without incident. He was taken into police custody and only later advised of his rights.
Reims : un Algérien interpellé pour apologie du terrorisme dans une boulangerie – Valeurs actuelles