The suspect is 62 years old and was arrested in the Paris region on March 5.
According to information from Parisian, police officers from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) arrested a man in his sixties on March 5, in the Paris region. He is suspected of having wanted to plan violent actions against Christian buildings, such as churches.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect is “obviously committed to jihadist ideology”. He was indicted three days after his arrest, on March 8, for “terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing crimes against people and placed in pre-trial detention”specified the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat).
Our colleagues add that, at the beginning of March, already three adolescents, aged 15 to 17, were also suspected “of having been in contact with four men arrested in Belgium for a planned attack against a concert hall in Brussels”. They had been indicted.”for criminal terrorist association”, in Paris, after being arrested by the DGSI and two of them had been imprisoned.