Overview

• DGSI agents arrested the suspect in Sarthe on June 17 after uncovering his pledge to ISIS and plans targeting synagogues, sex shops and public festivities.
• The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office charged him with criminal terrorist association on June 20 and placed him in pretrial detention.
• Investigators determined he was in a preparatory phase and had not acquired the means to carry out an attack at the time of his arrest.
• Sources say the teenager was previously known to police only for common-law offenses and had no prior terrorism record.
• Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has doubled patrols around sensitive sites and flagged a new risk from a potential Sunni-Shia alliance.