Following the arrest of three men in Haute-Garonne on Tuesday, one of them, a 22-year-old Afghan, was presented before an investigating judge on Saturday, October 12, for prosecution, according to the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT). . The custody of the other two men has been lifted, indicated the PNAT, requested by the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“The investigations carried out revealed the existence of a planned violent action against people in a football stadium or a shopping center, instigated by one of them, 22 years old, of Afghan nationality and holder of a resident card, several of which also demonstrate radicalization and adherence to the ideology of the Islamic State”declared the PNAT on Saturday. The Prosecutor’s Office opened a judicial investigation against him for terrorist conspiracy with a view to preparing one or more crimes of personal injury and requested his preventive detention.
The three men, between 20 and 31 years old, were arrested on Tuesday at 6 a.m., in Toulouse and Fronton (Haute Garonne), by investigators from the General Directorate of Internal Security, supported by the RAID, the investigation unit , assistance, intervention and deterrence. . They had been taken into 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.” According to a source close to the case, they were arrested after receiving information.
