“I am a fighter for the Islamic State”: Man arrested after terrorist manhunt in Gonesse, France

A man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State was arrested following a PHAROS alert on Tuesday the 21st of January 2025, a police source told Valeurs Actuelles. The alert, which was received by the Seine-Saint-Denis Information and Communication Centre (CIC) at 12:24 p.m., referred to a person who declared allegiance to the Islamic State and threatened to commit crimes against the forces of law and order.
The man had declared via the social network X: ‘I have barricaded myself in my bathtub with a Kalashnikov and am waiting for the forces of law and order. I am a fighter of the Islamic State in Syria, fuck your mothers, fuck the police, fuck the Jews’. In his message, he also gave his address: a flat on the 11th floor of a building in Sevran in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.

Deployment of the BRI and the GSO
Based on these findings, the law enforcement agencies deployed a level three intervention force and deployed the Brigade de recherche et d’intervention (BRI) and a column of the Groupe de soutien opérationnel (GSO).
Following initial investigations, the suspect was located at his workplace at the company ‘SACATEC équipement’ in Gonesse in the Val-d’Oise department. The operational support group (GSO) then went to the workplace and arrested the person at 3.15 pm without anyone being injured. The perpetrator was taken into police custody.

The BRI arrived at the person’s home at 2.45 p.m. after a cordon had been set up. The task force took over the security check of the flat, as it had not been possible to make contact with the tenant during the search. The officer from the criminal investigation department was able to start searching the house immediately, during which no suspicious objects were found.

[Info VA] « Je suis un combattant de l’état islamique » : un homme interpellé après un signalement Pharos – Valeurs actuelles

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