A police car driving at night (illustration). - Clément Follain / 20 Minutes

The 48-year-old man arrested last week after the discovery of homemade explosive devices in an Epinal building was indicted on Monday by an anti-terrorist judge and placed in pre-trial detention, we have learned from a judicial source .

This Moroccan suspect has been indicted for "criminal terrorist criminal association", "manufacturing an explosive device in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "possession and transport of explosives or substances intended to be used in the composition explosive devices with a view to preparing dangerous degradations or attacks on persons, in connection with a terrorist enterprise, "said this source.

He was arrested Thursday following a "home visit" [an administrative search]. With an "S" record for radicalization, he has already been convicted four times for drug trafficking and was released from prison in May 2018, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Relations with the Islamist group Forsane Alizza

Followed for several years, he is particularly known for his relations with the Islamist group Forsane Alizza, dissolved in 2012 by the Ministry of the Interior. He boasted in December of knowing how to handle explosives, which had alerted the authorities, said another source close to the investigation.

During the "home visit", a pressure cooker containing black powder and bolts, three handmade hand grenades filled with black powder and bolts, electrical equipment and black powder were discovered in a cellar , according to one of the sources close to the file.

The police custody of the two other suspects arrested on Thursday, his partner and a relative with whom he was at the time of his arrest, were lifted on Sunday, without their being prosecuted.

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