France: Police speak of detained Islamists' kidnap plot

France: Police speak of detained Islamists' kidnap plot

Via AFP:
Seventeen people detained by French police in a crackdown on suspected Islamist networks might have been plotting a kidnap, the head of the police intelligence's unit said Saturday.

"They appeared to be preparing a kidnap," Bernard Squarcini of the Central Directorate for Domestic Intelligence (DCRI) told La Provence newspaper.

He did not elaborate on the alleged plot, but said the group was made up of "French nationals" who were involved in "collective war-like training, linked to a violent, religious indoctrination."

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