A 17-year-old adolescent, arrested on Monday in Haute-Saône, was indicted Thursday March 13 and placed in pre-trial detention, suspected of having projected a violent action “During Ramadan”.
The youngster was indicted and imprisoned, in accordance with the requisitions of the National Anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT), announced the public prosecutor, which opened a judicial investigation on Thursday for the association of criminal terrorist criminals.
According to a source close to the investigation, this is the ” first “ draft violent action thwarted in 2025.
Monday, the teenager was “Wearer of a knife” When he was arrested, this source close to the investigation was told France-Presse (AFP). He was considering “Jewish or Christian targets”but this project remained however “Not very specific”underlined this source.
Conversations on encrypted Telegram messaging have shown that the young person, “Radicalized”said “Wanting to take action during Ramadan” 2025, added a source close to the file. He had also been able to evoke the consulates of the United States and Israel, according to the same source.
The teenager was checked by the gendarmerie on Monday in a street close to a high school in the Lure sector, said another source close to the investigation. A knife was discovered in his bag.
It was initially arrested and placed in police custody for “Weapon port” In a survey opened by the Vesoul prosecutor’s office, according to this source, and had no mention to his criminal record. On Tuesday, the PNAT seized the procedure.
“Exact targets” to be confirmed
“Upcoming investigations”And “Entrusted to the Directorate General of Internal Security [DGSI] »»,, “Will confirm the exact targets of the draft violent action and its imminence”underlined the anti -terrorist prosecution, requested by AFP.
Contacted by AFP, his lawyer, Me Réda Ghilaci, did not wish to speak at this stage.
The latest arrests for a violent action project in France, which had an echo in the press, date back to the beginning of December.
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Three young men, arrested in Nîmes and Nantes, had been indicted, suspected of having thrown a violent action of jihadist inspiration with craft bombs and having considered the town hall of Poitiers as a target.
In November 2024, a French minor of Chechen origin, born in 2008, was also indicted and imprisoned for a project of terrorist attack in France of jihadist inspiration.
Nine projects of attacks thwarted in 2024
According to “A review of the policy of fighting terrorism”press release Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, nine projects of attacks were thwarted in 2024, worn “For the most part by sympathizers of the Islamic State”.
According to this same assessment, within the country, the threat emanates “Sympathizing individuals of the jihadist cause, often young and far from the traditional radical movement: 70 % of the involved in attacks of attack since 2023 were under 21, radicalized online for the most part”.
There “Jihadist threat represents 80 % of the procedures” Diligent by the PNAT, had also recalled mid-September the anti-terrorist prosecutor Olivier Christen. “In the first half of 2024, there had been about three times more procedures” From this type that over the same period in 2023, he added.
The beginning of 2025 was marked by two Islamist attacks: in January, a 32 -year -old Frenchman had injured a person with a knife by shouting “Allahou Akbar” (“God is the greatest”in Arabic) in an Apt supermarket (Vaucluse). And on February 22, a 37-year-old Algerian killed a stabbing and injured six other people near a market in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin).