A French teenager linked to an Islamic State extremist suspected of instigating attacks in France is arrested for allegedly offering to carry out a strike.
Police sources say the youth was in touch with French jihadist Rachid Kassim, who is suspected of ordering or inciting the killing of a police couple in their home in June and the murder of an elderly priest in a Normandy church in July.
Investigators search the teenager’s home in northeast Paris to try to ascertain whether he had been planning an imminent attack. His age is not given.
84-year-old French priest Jacques Hamel was murdered in an apparent Islamic State terror attack on his church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in Normandy on July 26, 2016 (Photo from Twitter)
His arrest comes two days after a 15-year-old from eastern Paris is charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts after writing on Telegram — the encrypted messaging app popular among French radicals — of his plans to commit a stabbing, sources say.
He too had been in contact with Kassim, a 29-year-old social worker from the Loire valley, who has appeared in several Telegram videos made in Syria and Iraq urging attacks in France.
— AFP
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