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French police arrest another teenager suspected of plotting attack

By REUTERS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 15:13

PARIS - French police on Wednesday arrested a 15-year old suspected of planning an attack and using encrypted social media channels to communicate with a French Islamist militant believed to be in Syria or Iraq, sources said.

In an operation led by France's domestic intelligence agency, police swooped on the teenager in Paris' eastern 20th arrondissement.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed the operation. "We're working with extreme intensity to identify those we think are likely to carry out an attack," he told reporters, adding that Islamic State was recruiting "younger and younger individuals".

It is the second time a 15-year-old minor suspected of plotting to kill in the name of Islamic State has been arrested in five days. A source inside the prosecutor's office said both youngsters had used Telegram to communicate with Rachid Kassim, an Islamic State jihadist of French nationality.

Their arrests follow the detention of three women, including a 19-year-old, who had allegedly wanted to attack a Paris railway station using a car laden with gas cylinders.

France is reeling from a wave of militant attacks on its territory that have killed more than 230 people since January, 2015, and its intelligence services are struggling to dismantle a web of militant networks inside the country.

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