The French newspaper Le Progres disclosed on Tuesday that French police
foiled a terror attack that was planned in September against an anti-Semitism conference in Lyon (Hat Tip:
Daniel Greenfield).
The five suspects who were arrested in a
series of sweeps by French police between Sept. 16 and Sept. 18 were
planning to strike on Sept. 18 at an event organized in Lyon by the
regional branch of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities and
organizations, according to a report Tuesday in the Le Progres daily.
An unnamed police officer who is in charge of
the investigation confirmed to the daily that the suspects were arrested
following the interception of a September 5 telephone conversation in
which they discussed their plans.
Among the five arrested are Karim and Reda
Bekhaled, two brothers who are believed to have been involved in
recruiting radical Muslims to fight in Syria, along with the remaining
three suspects. Reda Bekhaled was heard discussing the plans in the
recorded conversation.
The police officer said the brothers “had the
ambition of dying as martyrs” and “planned to carry out imminently an
act of violence.”
How many more Muslims are there in France who have the 'ambition of dying as martyrs'? There seem to be an awful lot of them.
If there is a way to discern who they are, every way must be pursued to grant them their wish ASAP. Maybe we should just ask?
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