Quote:France charges 10 ultra-right suspects over plot to attack Muslims.France24:
'French authorities have charged 10 suspected far-right extremists in connection with an alleged plot
to attack Muslims, a judicial source said Thursday.
The nine men and one woman aged 32 to 69 were arrested in raids across France on Saturday.
They appeared before a judge on Wednesday evening and were charged with "criminal terrorist conspiracy",
the source said. Several were also charged with violations of firearms laws and the manufacture or possession
of explosive devices.
Police have linked the ten to a little-known group called Action des Forces Operationnelles (Operational Forces
Action), which urges French people to combat Muslims, or what it calls "the enemy within".
The suspects had an "ill-defined plan to commit a violent act targeting people of the Muslim faith", a source
close to the investigation told AFP on Monday. Rifles, handguns and homemade grenades were found during
the raids in the Paris area, the Mediterranean island of Corsica and the western Charentes-Maritimes region.
Prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday that 36 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized,
as well as items in one suspect's home that could be used in the manufacture of TATP explosives.
The suspects include a retired police officer, identified only as Guy S., who was the alleged leader of the group,
according to a source close to the investigation. The group also includes a former soldier.
France remains on high alert following a wave of jihadist attacks which have killed more than 240 people since 2015.
Officials have urged people not to confuse the actions of radicalised individuals with those of France's estimated
six million Muslims --but anti-Islamic violence is on the rise.
The "Guerre de France" (War for France) website of the shadowy Operational Forces Action depicts an apocalyptic
battle scene under the Eiffel Tower, and claims to prepare "French citizen-soldiers for combat on national territory".
France's TF1 television has said the group planned to target radicalised imams and Islamist prisoners after their
release from jail, as well as veiled women in the street chosen at random.
France registered 72 violent anti-Muslim acts last year, up from 67 in 2016...'
'...urges French people to combat Muslims, or what it calls "the enemy within"...' What an outlandish idea!
What evidence is there that an opposing ideology that attacks the culture of the country it dwells in, is a so-called
enemy?!
Oh wait.
Quote:Paris attack 'driver' freed and placed under watch.SKY News:
Ali Oulkadi is believed to have driven Salah Abdeslam (pictured) -the suspected sole survivor of the 2015
attacks -into Belgium.
Salah Abdeslam
'The man suspected of helping Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam escape the French capital after the 2015
attacks has been released and placed under judicial supervision in Brussels. Ali Oulkadi is believed to have
driven Abdeslam - the suspected sole survivor - across the border into Belgium the day after the attacks.
The Paris prosecutors' office said on Tuesday that the conditions of Oulkadi's release back to the Belgian capital
included regularly reporting to police and a curfew.
He is also banned from leaving the country, making contact with a list of individuals and possessing a weapon.
It comes after Abdeslam told investigators earlier this year that his friend knew nothing about the attacks.
Abdeslam, 28, is in solitary confinement in a French prison, awaiting trial for his alleged role in the killings.
A total of 130 people died in a series of coordinated suicide bombings and shootings at the Stade de France,
the Bataclan concert hall and at bars and restaurants in Paris on the night of 13 November 2015.
Abdeslam's brother Brahim was among the suicide bombers...'
The driver suspected of taking a known-terrorist to another country on the day of the attacks and had a brother
who was a suicide-bomber is released with a 'not-to-do' list.
And you wonder why the citizens of France take matters into their own hands?!
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