Overview

• Sixteen members of Action des forces opérationnelles have been on trial in Paris since June 10 for plotting to poison halal food and kill radicalized imams in 2018
• Defendants told investigators they saw their schemes as a response to the Bataclan attack and feared an ‘islamization of France’ leading to civil war
• On June 5, Christophe Belgembe was charged in Var with murder and attempted murder after fatally shooting his Tunisian neighbor and targeting others in Puget-sur-Argens
• Justice officials report this killing marks the twentieth procedure for far-right terrorism since 2017 and note about 60 ultraright detainees are held nationwide
• Security analysts warn that individuals acting alone, often influenced by accelerationist and ‘great replacement’ theories, are now authorities’ primary concern