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Planned attack before the 2017 presidential election: a strange jihadist duo in front of the assizes

2023-01-04T19:17:41.180Z


Mahiedine Merabet and Clément Baur were arrested in Marseille in the spring of 2017. The two men, with unique profiles and backgrounds, are suspected of having prepared an attack before the first round of the presidential election.


The multi-recidivist Islamo delinquent and the fake Chechen, former altar boy and virtuoso of jihadist concealment… The special assize court in Paris judges a very unusual hitch from January 5 to February 3.

On April 18, 2017, the arrest in Marseille of Mahiedine Merabet, then 29 years old, and Clément Baur, 23, made the headlines.

A few days before the first round of the presidential election, the police had found an incredible arsenal in the apartment occupied by the two men: a 9mm Uzi submachine gun, a 7.65mm Mauser pistol, a 7.65mm Walther pistol , a Ruby 7.65mm pistol, all with magazines, accessories and quantities of ammunition, not to mention more than 3 kilos of TATP (homemade explosive appreciated by jihadists) completed or in the manufacturing phase, as well as various explosive devices (a plate with integrated wicks, a homemade grenade, TATP stabilized with nitrocellulose)…

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Source: lefigaro

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