The French authorities arrested seven people who were radicalized in Strasbourg and indicted two others for allegedly preparing terrorist attacks.
The arrests took place on November 18th but were only publicly revealed on Thursday and saw the seven suspects taken into custody by the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), France’s domestic security and intelligence agency.
French authorities released the five suspects and indicted two of them. They are both foreigners from Russia or Tajikistan, and they arrived in France only recently.
The broadcast notes the arrests came just days before the opening of Strasbourg’s Christmas Market, which attracts as many as two million visitors a year.
BREAKING #Strasbourg Gunman Killed in Police Shootout https://t.co/TAXvBzXIDo
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 13, 2018
The city’s Christmas Market has been the scene of a previous terrorist attack in December 2018, when a radical Islamic terrorist gunman named Cherif Chekatt opened fire on those attending the market, murdering five and injuring eleven other bystanders.
Chekatt was later shot dead by police after he fled the scene in a taxi and was located in the Neudorf-Meinau quarter of Strasbourg where the terrorist had been hiding for two days after the attack.
Two years ago, the Strasbourg attack occurred just after the attack on the Berlin Christmas Market. In that attack, Tunisian Anis amri stole a large truck and drove it into the crowd at the market. Twelve people were killed and many more were injured.
According to French authorities, they have stopped as many as 65 terror plots from 2015 since November 2015. The vast majority were involving extremist Islamic extremists. While most of the people arrested for plotting failures were French citizens, at least 34 others came from North Africa, Russia, and Syria.
Terrorist attacks have claimed the lives of 263 French citizens since 2015.
Official figures show that 65 terrorist plots against France have been stopped since 2015. They also reveal that over 260 terrorist attacks took place during this time. https://t.co/fjxeLLJ6V4
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