They left Finistère for Paris. On Wednesday evening, the seven men arrested on Monday during an anti-terrorist phone call in Brest were transferred to the headquarters of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) in Levallois-Perret, where their police custody continued on Thursday. Between the ages of 16 and 38, the seven individuals are suspected of having prepared a "violent action" project in France and were considering leaving for the Iraqi-Syrian zone. They were arrested on Monday during an operation with the GIPN and the RAID.
The central figure in this case appears to be a man in his thirties, born in Syria and arrived in France in 2015 with a Palestinian passport. He had obtained refugee status, according to a source close to the investigation. A Brest merchant, responsible for a halal butchery, was also among the suspects. The latter, like several individuals arrested on Monday, was the subject of an S card because of his membership of the radical Islamist movement.
Condemned for condoning terrorism
In the aftermath of the attacks of November 13, 2015, this man, in his thirties, had been arrested after having mimicked an automatic weapon firing on the passage of a police patrol. Images of Islamist propaganda were then discovered at his home. He had been given a three-year suspended prison sentence for condemning terrorism. New documents were also seized by the investigators.
Questioned on BFMTV Thursday morning, the Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nuñez recalled that the terrorist risk remained "very high" in France, specifying that 60 attacks had been thwarted since the end of 2013. "We will know at the end of these investigations whether or not we had the 61st, "he said.
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