France: three suspects of a neo-Nazi group indicted and imprisoned for a planned attack

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Three members of a small neo-Nazi group, arrested Tuesday in eastern France on suspicion of a planned attack on a Masonic lodge, were indicted on Friday, May 6 and placed in pre-trial detention.

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The three suspects, two men aged 29 and 56 and a woman aged 53, were indicted by a Parisian anti-terrorism judge for "criminal terrorist association", according to this source.

Three other people, two men and a woman who were also arrested on Tuesday and taken into custody, have for their part been released without prosecution at this stage.

Preliminary investigation

These arrests took place as part of a preliminary investigation by the national anti-terrorism prosecution, opened in February on this tiny ultra-right group called "Honor and Nation".

According to a source close to the file, the suspects are suspected of having wanted to prepare a violent action, potentially against a Masonic lodge.

The project did not seem imminent, however.

Explosives research

They were arrested following exchanges between them, and in particular because they were researching possible explosives and had carried out locations.

According to a close source, some of these people were in contact with Rémy Daillet, a figure of the French conspiracy movement residing in Malaysia.

Several

anti-terrorism investigations

linked to the ultra-right movement are underway in France.

(With AFP)

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