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Terrorism: five women arrested in Béziers, including one suspected of planning violent action

2021-04-04T10:55:57.078Z


The five defendants were placed in police custody this Sunday, April 4. Five women were arrested in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Béziers, including one suspected of having wanted to commit a violent action, AFP learned from sources close to the investigation and judicial, confirming information from Point . Read also: Terrorism: the underestimated dangerousness of jihadist women These arrests were made by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) o


Five women were arrested in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Béziers, including one suspected of having wanted to commit a violent action, AFP learned from sources close to the investigation and judicial, confirming information from

Point

.

Read also: Terrorism: the underestimated dangerousness of jihadist women

These arrests were made by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) on the basis of elements leading to fear of violent action, a source close to the investigation explained, stressing that the police were coming. to begin and that it was a question of determining the nature of the possible project.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) has opened a preliminary investigation for "

terrorist criminal association

".

A judicial source told AFP that only one of the arrested was suspected of wanting to commit violent action.

The four other women arrested, the mother and three sisters of the person initially targeted by the operation, were arrested because they were present at the home, said the judicial source.

From the same source, at least one of the sisters is a minor.

According to

Le Point

, these arrests were made "

in the popular district of La Dévèze

", south-east of Béziers.

The weekly also indicated, citing a local source, that these women "

were known to be radicalized and, concerning some of them, to have viewed videos

" of the Islamic State group.

Read also: In prison, special units for female terrorists

Even if the terrorist acts of jihadist inspiration are overwhelmingly perpetrated by men, women have already been convicted in France for such acts.

Four women who had become the “

face of feminine jihad

” according to the anti-terrorism prosecution at the time, including Ornella Gilligmann and Inès Madani who had tried to detonate a car near Notre-Dame de Paris in 2016, had thus been condemned to the assizes in 2019 to sentences of up to 30 years of criminal imprisonment.

The appeal trial of Inès Madani and Mohamed Lamine Aberouz is to be held in May in Paris.

Source: lefigaro

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