French police arrest two men over ‘terror plot to attack gay people’ and another targeting ‘Swingers’ club

From the French edition of The Local and France 24

French police have thwarted two terror attacks, including one at a swingers’ club, sources close to the investigations said Thursday. Two men in their 20s have been arrested in the greater Paris region over a suspected plot to carry out a terrorist attack targeting the gay community, sources in the intelligence services claim.

The pair, aged 21 and 22, were arrested in the eastern Paris suburb of Seine-et-Marne suspected of planning to carry out an attack in the name of the Islamic State group. While the details of their plot remain vague at the moment, sources close to the investigation told AFP that the attack may been planned against the gay community. 

According to sources close to the investigation, “knives, a firing device and Islamist State group propaganda were found” during raids conducted on Saturday by France’s intelligence service DGSI in Seine-et-Marne after the pair had been arrested on June 9th.They have since been placed in pre-trial detention, according to the prosecutor’s wishes, a source close to the investigation revealed to the French press. 

The plot to attack the swingers club seems to be a separate operation. From France 24

One suspect, a 38-year-old “radicalised convert” to Islam, was arrested in the Indre region in the centre of the country. “An improvised explosive device was found at his home and the man admitted that he wanted to use it to target a swingers’ club,”

The man, originally from the Loiret region, was charged and taken into custody on May 17 for “associating with terrorist criminals” and “preparing an act of terrorism”, a judicial source said.

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