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One of the three suspects was held at the central house in Saint-Maur, Indre. GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP

In France, three men, including two already detained, were indicted for planning to commit an attack.

The three men were indicted Friday, July 26 for "criminal terrorist criminal conspiracy" and imprisoned for a foiled attack project. Aged 27, 31 and 42, these suspects had not determined a specific target, but had raised the possibility of attacking a prison supervisor, a source close to the Agence France-Presse report said. , confirming information from the Parisian .

" It was a project, we were not on a particularly high level of risk ," said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, traveling in the Gard. " Intelligence has worked well ," he added.

According to information from AFP, the three suspects challenged while in custody to plan to commit an attack.

Two of them were detained in the penitentiary center of Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir) and in the central house of Saint-Maur (Indre). The third had been released earlier this year. According to Le Parisien , the "brain" of the group is the 27-year-old man, a convert to Islam already condemned for "apologizing for terrorism". Having had to change prisons on at least three occasions, he met the two other suspects in the prisons of Châteaudun and Toulon. One of them was sentenced to six years in prison in early 2016 for spending six months in Syria two years earlier with an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, reports Le Parisien .

In recent months, two assaults by prison guards have occurred in Le Havre by a convict convicted of terrorism and Condé-sur-Sarthe by a radicalized detainee . Of some 71,000 prisoners in France, about 500 people are incarcerated for acts of Islamic terrorism and about 1,100 common law prisoners are followed for radicalization, a stable figure for eighteen months.

(With AFP)