a man suspected of planning violent action presented to an anti-terrorism judge for indictment

This 22-year-old Afghan is suspected of having “fomented” a “violent action plan targeting people in a football stadium or a shopping center”, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office.

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A police officer in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), October 4, 2022. (ANTOINE BERLIOZ / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

A 22-year-old Afghan, arrested Tuesday in Haute-Garonne, was presented on Saturday October 12 to an investigating judge with a view to being indicted. The young man is suspected of having “fomented” A “planned violent action targeting people in a football stadium or shopping center”according to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat).

The police custody of two other men arrested in the Toulouse region have been lifted, said the Pnat. The three men, aged 20 to 31, were arrested Tuesday morning in Toulouse and Fronton (Haute-Garonne) by investigators from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), supported by Raid, the police unit. police intervention.

They had been placed in police custody as part of a preliminary investigation opened on September 27 by the Pnat for “terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing one or more crimes of personal injury”. “Several elements also establish radicalization and adherence to the ideology of the Islamic State” of the man presented to an investigating judge, Pnat said on Saturday. The prosecution requested his placement in pre-trial detention.


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