{"id":10343,"date":"2018-06-15T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2018-06-15T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:57:28","slug":"french-police-foil-terror-plots-targeting-homosexuals-and-swingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/french-police-foil-terror-plots-targeting-homosexuals-and-swingers\/","title":{"rendered":"French police foil terror plots targeting \u2018homosexuals and swingers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) June 15 – Two men in their twenties have reportedly been arrested in France for plotting to carry out a terrorist attack\u00a0targeting the LGBT community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were arrested in the Paris suburb of Seine-et-Marne, accused of planning to carry out an Islamic State inspired attack targeting gay people.<\/p>\n

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Knives, a firing device and Islamist State group propaganda were found during raids conducted on Saturday by France\u2019s intelligence service after the pair\u00a0were arrested on June 9.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cTheir plan remains unclear at this stage, but there is evidence to suggest they are targeting homosexuals,\u201d sources familiar with the investigation told the French media.<\/p>\n

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Gendarme take part in a mock riot drill at the French Gendarmerie national training centre (CNEFG), on June 8, 2018, in Saint-Astier, southwestern France. (NICOLAS TUCAT\/AFP)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The two men are now in pre-trial detention, following a request by the prosecutor.<\/p>\n

Sources told L\u2019Express<\/a>, a French newspaper, that the pair were \u201cvery determined,\u201d and that they had mentioned \u201cseveral times a project of attack in their exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them mentioned the search for a weapon,\u201d said another source.<\/p>\n

The friends first came to the attention of French intelligence agencies a few weeks ago, before being arrested on June 9.<\/p>\n

Another man was also arrested in a separate incident, accused of planning to carry out an attack targeting swingers\u2019 clubs.<\/p>\n

The suspect, described as a 38-year-old recent convert to Islam, was arrested in the central Indre region of the country.<\/p>\n

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A forensic officer and a French policeman Saint Augustin street in Paris after one person was killed and several injured by a man armed with a knife, who was shot dead by police (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT\/AFP)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The man, originally from the Loiret region, was charged and taken into custody on May 17 for \u201cassociating with terrorist criminals\u201d and \u201cpreparing an act of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He allegedly had an improvised explosive device at this home, and was intending to use it to attack the clubs.<\/p>\n

The discovery of the plots means that five potential terrorist attacks in France have been foiled by police so far this year.<\/p>\n

In March, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told Parliament that 51 attacks had been thwarted by police since January 2015, when gunmen attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine.<\/p>\n

The country remains on high alert following a string of jihadi terrorist attacks over the past few years which have claimed the lives of more than 250 people.<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu (Pahichan) June 15 – Two men in their twenties have reportedly been arrested in France for plotting to carry out a terrorist attack\u00a0targeting the LGBT community.
\nThey were arrested in the Paris suburb of Seine-et-Marne, accused of planning to carry out an Islamic State inspired attack targeting gay people.<\/p>\n

Knives, a firing device and Islamist State group propaganda were found during raids conducted on Saturday by France\u2019s intelligence service after the pair\u00a0were arrested on June 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir plan remains unclear at this stage, but there is evidence to suggest they are targeting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,11],"tags":[524,1126],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-lgbt","tag-prime-minister"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}