A teenage girl who allegedly had expressed readiness to commit the terrorist attack in France was arrested by police in Paris suburbs, a local media report said on Monday.
The 16-year-old girl, with suspected links with criminals related to terrorist networks, was charged with incitement of terrorist acts by using online means of communication, Xinhua news agency reported.
She was arrested on Thursday last week in Melun, Paris suburbs after she posted on Telegram messaging service “numerous propaganda messages of the Islamic State, echoing calls for an attack,” local media reported, citing a source close to the investigation.
France has been attacked several times in the recent past, including the Nice carnage and the Normandy church attack, by suspected Islamic State sympathisers. At least 80 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the Nice attack when a French citizen of Tunisian descent mowed his truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day on July 14. As France was still coping with the immense loss of lives in the Nice attack, when two jihadists attacked a French church and killed a priest. Two men stormed into a church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass and slit the 86-year-old priest’s throat at the altar before being gunned down by police.
The attacks by jihadists in the recent past in Europe have increased jitters over young, often unstable men being lured by IS propaganda and calls to carry out attacks in their home countries.
The 16-year-old girl, with suspected links with criminals related to terrorist networks, was charged with incitement of terrorist acts by using online means of communication, Xinhua news agency reported.
She was arrested on Thursday last week in Melun, Paris suburbs after she posted on Telegram messaging service “numerous propaganda messages of the Islamic State, echoing calls for an attack,” local media reported, citing a source close to the investigation.
France has been attacked several times in the recent past, including the Nice carnage and the Normandy church attack, by suspected Islamic State sympathisers. At least 80 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the Nice attack when a French citizen of Tunisian descent mowed his truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day on July 14. As France was still coping with the immense loss of lives in the Nice attack, when two jihadists attacked a French church and killed a priest. Two men stormed into a church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass and slit the 86-year-old priest’s throat at the altar before being gunned down by police.
The attacks by jihadists in the recent past in Europe have increased jitters over young, often unstable men being lured by IS propaganda and calls to carry out attacks in their home countries.