Man Charged For Threatening To Kill France's Macron
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published July 03, 2017 | 03:45 PM
PARIS, July 3 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 03rd Jul, 2017 ) : A 23-year-old man has been charged with plotting to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron at France's Bastille Day parade, a judicial source said Monday.
The self-described nationalist, who was arrested last Wednesday, told investigators he wanted to kill Macron at the July 14 national day parade in Paris, a source close to the investigation said.
He said he also wanted to attack "Muslims, Jews, blacks," the source added. Police arrested the man at his home in the northwest Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Wednesday after being alerted by users of a chatroom linked to a video game where he allegedly said he wanted to buy a firearm.
Three kitchen knives were found in his vehicle and analysis of his computer found that he had conducted internet searches on potential targets, the source said.
He was charged on Saturday with plotting to commit a terrorist act, the judicial source said.
The man was convicted for condoning terrorism in 2016 and sentenced to three years in prison, of which 18 months were suspended. He had applauded neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011 in Norway.
The top date in France's ceremonial Calendar, the July 14 parade commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 -- the start of the French Revolution and a turning point in world history.
The parade takes place on Paris's Champs-Elysees, which has been the site of two recent attacks targeting police. Late last month a man drove a car laden with weapons and gas canisters into a police van on the world-famous avenue.
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