Six people belonging to a group of ultra-right were arrested Tuesday in the Doubs and Bas-Rhin according to a judicial source and a source close to the case.
They were planning to commit an attack, probably in a Masonic lodge.
Three of them could be indicted on Friday.
Six members of a small neo-Nazi group, suspected of a planned attack on a Masonic lodge, were arrested Tuesday in the Doubs and Bas-Rhin, a judicial source and a source close to the case said on Friday, confirming information by BFMTV. Three of them, two men and a woman aged 29 to 56, are presented this Friday to a Parisian examining magistrate with a view to possible indictment for "criminal terrorist association", according to the source judicial. The other three, two men and a woman as well, were released without prosecution at this point. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat) opened a preliminary investigation in February 2021 into the activities of this tiny ultra-right group.
Arrested after research on possible explosives
According to a source close to the case, the people involved are suspected of having wanted to prepare a violent action, potentially against a Masonic lodge.
The project did not seem imminent, however.
They were arrested following exchanges between them, and in particular because they were researching possible explosives and had carried out locations.