France: a minor, who said he was ready to carry out an attack, referred – Boursorama

French soldiers and policemen patrolling in Paris as part of Vigipirate (AFP / File / JOEL SAGET)

french soldiers and police patrolling in Paris as part of Vigipirate (AFP / File / JOEL SAGET)

She was arrested Thursday as part of an operation terrorism in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), in Parisian suburbs.

“Very radicalized”, she was a director of a group on the encrypted messaging Telegram, where “she relayed numerous propaganda messages of the Islamic State group, echoed calls for the commission of a attack and has also expressed its intention to take action, “said a source close to the investigation.

a judicial inquiry, led by the anti-terrorist magistrates, was opened by the Paris prosecutor who requested his provisional detention.

investigators are riled up the teenager, who has no criminal record, after spotting a message “very worrying” posted within this group Telegram, said the source close to the investigation.

searches were conducted Thursday by the elite Raid police officers in Melun, including the family home of the girl . Neither weapons nor explosives have been discovered.

The computer and telephone minor are in operation and “there was no at this stage other arrests,” added the same source.

Launched in 2013, messaging Telegram, founded by Russians, is regularly singled out by the authorities as one of the preferred means of communication jihadists because of its encryption.

The two authors of the attack in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Adel Abdel Malik Kermiche and Petitjean, had met via this application just days before the assassination of Father Jacques Hamel during mass.

Kermiche was described in advance the method of the attack of 26 July, citing “a knife” as well as “a church” and Petitjean was posted in July a video where he paid allegiance to the EI and reported a violent action project against France.

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