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Three French men in prison were charged with planning a terrorist attack on potential targets, including prison guards, institutional sites or pbaders-by.
French newspaper The Parisian reported that a former soldier, a convert to Islam and a "returnee" jihadist were indicted on July 26 – the same week they reportedly intended to carry out the attack. ;attack.
Two of the men were in prison and the third had been released earlier this year. Sources close to the case say that the attack was to take place when another suspect was released.
Investigators reportedly seized the "light weapons" of men aged 27, 31 and 42, who deny allegations of a terrorist plot.
One of the men was incarcerated in Châteaudun, in the northern department of Eure-et-Loir, and the other in a prison in Saint-Maur, in central France.
"We were not exposed to a particularly high level of risk," said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner. "Our intelligence has worked well."
according to The Parisian, the brain of the planned attack was the 27-year-old, a convert to Islam who had already been found guilty of apologizing for terrorism.
The released man had been sentenced for a six-month trip to Syria in 2014, where he was part of the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.
The third accomplice was a former soldier converted to Islam and radicalized.
In recent months, two prison guards have been badaulted: one in Le Havre by a convicted terrorist prisoner and the other in Condé-sur-Sarthe, by a radicalized prisoner.
Of the approximately 71,000 prisoners in France, about 500 are incarcerated for acts of Islamic terrorism and about 1,100 common law prisoners are suspected of having been radicalized.
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