France: Tunisian Man Arrested Planning Terror Attack Against Jews

 Hat tip Gates of Vienna

French police have arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man, who is suspected of planning a terrorist attack against the Louvre and/or the Jewish community in Paris.

The article below from 20 Minutes is translated by Fousesquawk.

Tunisian suspected of planning a terrorist attack against the Louvre or the Jewish community

Jihadism: A Tunisian suspected of having planned an attack targeting the Louvre and the Jewish community in Paris was formally charged and detained on Monday as part of an anti-terrorist investigation. 

On Monday, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) announced the arrest of a 27-year-old Tunisian, suspected of having planned” a violent, jihadist-inspired act,” in France. The man was placed in custody and jailed as part of an anti-terrorism investigation, opened by the Pnat.

According to a source close to the case, the suspect was planning an act targeted “at a Parian museum, as well as members of the Jewish community, but without a specific target.” The investigation was launched in the framework of a preliminary investigation opened on May 6 for “conspiracy to commit terrorist crimes against persons”. According to our colleagues at Monde and Parisien, (the museum) is thought to be the Louvre Museum.

The suspect was arrested at the end of April

According to Le Monde, the case began with a police check in the center of Paris on April 28. This man, arrested because he was driving a car with a false license, resides in La Garenne-Colombes, a Paris suburb, and was taken into custody and then placed in a center for administrative detention, not possessing a valid residence permit. Born in Djerba in 1999, he arrived in France in 2022 from Lampedusa looking for work, according to the newspaper. He was then arrested on May 7.

Also, according to the daily newspaper, the analysis of his cell phone revealed the presence of numerous videos of jihadist propaganda and hundreds of photos of firearms and knives. On his social media, Dhafer M. utilizes as his profile, the image of an Islamic State fighter executing prisoners. Some searches on Chat GPT with questions such as “how to fabricate a bomb,” or the damage caused by TNT were also retrieved from his phone, says Le Monde.

He also intended to join Daesh (ISIS)

The case has been assigned to the General Direction of Interior Security (DGSI) and the Anti-Terrorist Section of the Criminal Brigade. The Pnat specifies that the suspect is also “suspected, on the one hand, of fomenting a violent, jihadist plan of action, and on the other hand, planning a hijra (migration).  

The Anti-Terror Prosecutor’s Office states that this hijra (exile to a Muslim land) corresponded to a planned departure to the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria or Mozambique”. Following the detention order on Monday, Pnat requested the opening of a judicial investigation.

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