An anti-terrorism investigating judge has ordered the referral to the special assize court for minors of five people suspected of having planned a jihadist attack near the Élysée Palace in 2019, AFP learned on Tuesday from a close source. of the file, confirming information from the Parisian.
This indictment order, signed Thursday, returns five people
"before the assize court for minors specially composed for terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing crimes of personal injury"
, according to this source.
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One of them is also returned
"for non-denunciation of a crime constituting an act of terrorism"
, still from the same source.
A sixth protagonist of the case, a minor under the age of sixteen at the time of the facts and born in May 2003, was
“sentenced in 2021 by the juvenile court ruling in criminal matters to a prison sentence partially accompanied by a suspended probation “
Said the close source.
In his phone had been found a photograph of the person concerned next to François Hollande.
According to elements of the file of which AFP has knowledge, the file was opened in early February 2019 around the figure of Alexandre B., 42,
"suspected of fomenting a project of a terrorist nature targeting the security forces French and involving other individuals".
This
"supporter of jihad regularly published articles on social networks in favor of the Islamic State group"
and in particular on Telegram
"ISIS propaganda videos showing executions and butchering"
, according to these elements.
Specificity of this investigation, a cyber-infiltration then an incredible infiltration.
They updated
"a project of violent action targeting the surroundings of the Élysée Palace, the police officers on duty and possibly the civilians on the avenue".
On April 24, 2019,
"the undercover agent announced on the Telegram group that he had acquired two Kalashnikovs"
, offered for trial to Alexandre B. and another defendant, Karim B., in a Parisian apartment. managed by anti-terrorism, which triggered their arrest.
If Karim B.
“claimed the facts with which he was charged”
, Alexandre B. and the last member of the trio suspected of having considered violent action, Mohamed C.,
“affirmed that they would not have gone to the end ".
“We consider that the infiltrators”
of the DGSI
“have gone much further than what the law authorizes”
and “have given relief to the project”, contested Me Marc Bailly, lawyer for Mohamed C.