French Islamists ‘Planned Kidnappings’

Some of the 16 suspected Islamic militants detained in France planned to kidnap a Jewish magistrate and others, a source close to the investigation said. “It looks like some of them planned to carry out kidnappings including that of a magistrate who has a Jewish-sounding name,” the source said. Another source confirmed that a Jewish magistrate from Lyon in central France was to be targeted. The head of France’s Central Directorate for Domestic Intelligence, Bernard Squarcini, said those arrested the previous day were French nationals involved in “collective war-like training, linked to a violent, religious indoctrination.” The militants were netted in anti-terrorist swoops in different French cities a week after self-confessed al-Qaeda militant Mohamed Merah was shot dead following his killing spree in Toulouse.

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