French Police Arrest Jihadists Plotting Christmas Stabbing Attack
“Islamist literature and Islamic State propaganda was found during the arrests.”
As Christmas approaches, Europe is again in the crosshairs of Islamic terrorism. On Wednesday, French police thwarted a jihadi terror plot to stab people during the Christmas festivities.
The suspects, both aged 23, were planning “to attack people during the Christmas period in shopping centers, universities or in the street,” news reports say. One of the suspects admitted planning to “kill passers-by” and “die as “martyrs,” French newspaper Le Parisien reported.
Reuters confirmed the Islamist motivation behind the terror plot. “Islamist literature and Islamic State propaganda was found during the arrests, which were made close to Paris,” the news agency reported citing French media.
Paris-based TV channel EuroNews reported the foiled jihadi plot:
France has arrested two men on suspicion of planning a “jihadist-inspired” knife attack, judicial sources told AFP.
The attack was reportedly intended to target passers-by “around Christmas time” in shopping centres, universities, or in the street.
Two suspects — both aged 23 — were arrested last Friday and have been placed in pre-trial detention.
During searches, authorities said they seized a knife, mobile phones, and computers containing extremist material, according to French media.
The two men have since been charged with “criminal terrorist association,” a judicial source added.
“At least one of the two had a plan to act by the end of the year,” a source close to the case told AFP.
“We have detected [online] exchanges between them and … that led us to believe that their plan was serious and imminent,” it added.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed the arrests on Twitter and thanked France’s Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) for carrying out the operation.
“The terrorist threat remains at a high level in France, we are not letting our guard down,” Darmanin said.
This is not the first time terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) targeted France during Christmas. In 2018, an ISIS-inspired gunman killed four people and injured 12 at the Strasbourg Christmas market.
ISIS is reportedly trying to stage attacks in other European countries as well. ISIS uses social media to “recruit young suicide bombers in bid to carry out Christmas attacks,” the UK daily Sun reported recently.
The UK police are fearful of Islamic terrorist attacks during Christmas. “Police are calling on Christmas shoppers to remain vigilant as armed patrols are stepped up in London following two terror attacks in the space of a month,” the British newspaper Independent reported last month. “The Metropolitan Police, City of London Police and British Transport Police are increasing the number of officers – both armed and unarmed – across the capital over the festive period after the UK’s terrorism threat level was raised to severe last week.”
Since the migrant influx of 2015, the Christmas season has witnessed some of the worst terrorist attacks in Europe. The most deadly terrorist attack took place in 2016 in Germany when a North African migrant and a known ISIS sympathizer drove a truck loaded with steel beams into a Berlin Christmas market, murdering 12 people and injuring 49 others.
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And they did it while spending a small fraction of what we do on terror/defense/military industrial complex.
Looks like we aren’t in a crisis requiring a trillion a year worth of spending, the French do just fine with the local police arresting criminals.
The French police ‘doing just fine’ arresting criminals? Have you been to Paris recently? What they’re doing is a bandaid approach.
Prior to the wave of third world immigration, France did not have the urban ghettos the US does, nor a political party bent on maintaining them and looting them of government benefits. Now, they do.
France is on the verge of another civil war:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/french-soldiers-accuse-government-of-trying-to-silence-warnings-of-civil-war
From this story it looks like the last thing you want to be is a terrorist or criminal holding a French passport because the FBI can’t protect you when your local police department throws you in jail, and there is no MIC to help you pull of say the Pulse Nightclub attack.
Ah, the joy of having the “religion of pieces” sharing in the birth of the Prince of Peace…
“Since the migrant influx of 2015, the Christmas season has witnessed some of the worst terrorist attacks in Europe.”
Connect the dots, anyone ?
Preemptive measures?
There’s really no good answer aside from deporting the troublemakers and their families. But that won’t happen.
Will the Islamic immigrants as a whole become ‘French’, and enjoy the advanced culture? Nope.
WIll France break into two nations? Maybe.
WIll France do what China has done to the Uyghurs? Doubt it.
In other words, the future of French cities is no better than the future of the US cities under permenant Democrat governance.
Terrorists should be immediately be made martyrs.
But the free and unbiased press in America told me that ISIS was dead!
Perhaps this is the Red Kryptonite variant of ISIS — “ISIS-k” — that we’ve heard rumors about?
Or would that be the Delta variant of ISIS? It’s all so confusing.
The Moronic version?
Islamism is a medical problem caused by a mineral deficiency, specifically lead.
A mass implant program will fix it cheaply and be 100% effective.