PARIS — France has charged two men aged 23 with terror offenses after arresting them over a jihadism-inspired plot to attack crowded public spaces with knives during the Christmas period, sources said Wednesday.
France’s domestic intelligence service, the DGSI, detained the pair in late November in separate locations outside Paris after information was received over an imminent attack, a judicial source and a source close to the case who asked not to be named told AFP.
French CRS (Compagnies Republicaines de Securite) police officers stand near the entrance of Le Bois d’Aulne middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, on November 3, 2020, as the pupils are back to school after holidays, two weeks after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker. – France on November 2 honoured the teacher beheaded near his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine by a suspected Islamist radical as millions of students returned to class after a spate of attacks that have put the country on edge. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)
