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Tuesday, the French secret service arrested six people. Suspicion: you have planned an attack on President Emmanuel Macron. Today, four of them have been tried for the formation of a "criminal terrorist group".
They are supporters of the far right. The suspects are also charged with illegal possession of firearms. According to anti-terrorist investigators, they were reportedly arrested in the Moselle region, about an hour's drive from Verdun, where Macron on Tuesday recalled the deaths of the First World War. It would act of men aged 22 to 62 years old. They were presented to an anti-terrorism judge.
Intercepted phone calls gave hint
In intercepted phone calls, the suspects spoke, according to judicial sources, of various projects, including an attack on the president. The plans were not yet very advanced.
The French authorities have opposed multiple extremists since last year:
- in the October 2017 Ten suspects have been arrested for alleged attacks on politicians, refugees and mosques. The spokesman of the government of the time, the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, and the political leader on the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, were possible targets.
- in the June of this year The national intelligence services opposed a group planning to attack Muslims. About 13 suspects were opened to belong to a terrorist group.
In an interview published Sunday, Macron had warned of a threat of right-wing extremist movements across Europe.
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