The prosecution also stated that the defendants gathered intelligence on various targets and also tried to purchase weapons and find donors to finance the attacks, but “there was no concrete attack plan” when they were arrested. In addition, six of the detainees are accused of collecting funds for ISIS and transferring thousands of euros to ISIS elements abroad.
We will move to France. The anti-terrorism authorities in the country arrested a 16-year-old boy, who stated that he wanted to “die with his hand” in a suicide attack on behalf of ISIS during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. He is suspected of the crime of “participating in a criminal association with the intention of organizing crimes that cause injury.”
According to the reports, the boy from the Aute-Savoie province in the southeast of the country was arrested today after he published posts on Telegram yesterday expressing his desire to obtain components to assemble an explosive belt in order to “die with his hand in the name of the Islamic Caliphate”, when he wanted to carry out the attack in the La Défense area of Paris during the Olympics. A search of his belongings revealed his oath of allegiance to the ISIS organization.