Afghan man imprisoned in France, accused of planning 'violent action'

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A 22-year-old Afghan was indicted and imprisoned successful France connected Saturday, accused of supporting the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) and of having "fomented" a "plan for convulsive action" successful a shot stadium oregon a buying center.

His arrest, which took spot Tuesday successful Haute-Garonne, has "links" with the apprehension of an Afghan surviving successful the United States and charged Wednesday with readying an onslaught connected the time of the U.S. elections, the nationalist anti-terrorist prosecutor's bureau (PNAT) said, confirming a root adjacent to the lawsuit questioned by AFP.

This 27-year-old Afghan, surviving successful the confederate U.S. authorities of Oklahoma, was successful interaction connected the Telegram messaging work with a idiosyncratic identified by the FBI arsenic an IS recruiter, according to American judicial authorities.

According to the root adjacent to the case, during their investigations, the American authorities transmitted accusation to the French authorities, triggering the opening of an probe successful Paris and starring to 3 arrests.

On Tuesday greeting successful the southwest of France, 3 men, aged 20 to 31, 2 of whom are brothers, were arrested successful Toulouse and Fronton by investigators from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), supported by the RAID, the constabulary involution unit, arsenic portion of a preliminary probe opened connected September 27 for "terrorist transgression relation with a presumption to preparing 1 oregon much crimes against persons."

"The investigations carried retired person highlighted the beingness of a program for convulsive enactment targeting radical successful a shot stadium oregon a buying halfway fomented by 1 of them, aged 22, of Afghan nationality and holder of a nonmigratory card, respective elements of which besides found radicalization and adherence to the ideology of the Islamic State," the PNAT told AFP connected Saturday.

His lawyer, Emanuel de Dinechin, did not privation to remark astatine this stage.

In accordance with the PNAT requisitions, helium was charged with violent transgression relation by an investigating judge, past placed successful provisional detention.

According to a root adjacent to the case, this young antheral comes from the Tajik assemblage successful Afghanistan and his project, which helium reportedly spoke astir connected Telegram, remained alternatively vague and unfinished.

According to different root adjacent to the investigation, helium has been surviving successful France for astir 3 years.

The different 2 men were released aft their constabulary custody.

Reconfiguration

The past arrests for a program for convulsive enactment successful France day backmost to the extremity of July.

Two young men, aged 18 and primitively from Gironde successful the southwest, were indicted connected July 27, suspected of having created a radical connected societal networks "intended to recruit" radical "motivated (to) perpetrate a convulsive action" during the Paris Olympic Games.

Three attacks were foiled during the Olympic period, according to the authorities. In summation to the 2 young radical from Gironde, 1 of the plans targeted establishments, including bars, astir the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium successful Saint-Etienne (southeast), and the different came from a radical that had planned attacks against institutions and representatives of Israel successful Paris. Five radical person been charged, including a insignificant teenager, successful these cases.

The "jihadist menace represents 80% of the procedures" initiated by the PNAT, anti-terrorism authoritative Olivier Christen recalled successful mid-September. "In the archetypal fractional of 2024, determination were astir 3 times much procedures" of this benignant than successful the aforesaid play successful 2023, helium added.

According to him, this summation is explained by the "geopolitical context," but besides by "the reconfiguration, peculiarly successful Afghanistan" of the Islamic State group.

In September, 2 attacks by the Islamic State successful Khorasan (IS-K) group, the determination subdivision of IS successful Afghanistan, killed astir 20 radical successful that country.

The deadliest onslaught by ISIS near 145 dormant successful March astatine a performance hallway successful Moscow.