The authorities are “very attentive to what is happening.” Invited this Wednesday on BFMTV-RMC, the Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, returned to the arrest on Tuesday of a 14-year-old teenager, clearly committed to the theses of the Islamic State organization, suspected of preparing an attack on French soil. .
According to the minister, it is a “very serious situation” and the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office is “embargoed.”
“A dozen” frustrated attacks since 2020
Taking advantage of the theme, Gérald Darmanin also recalled that “the terrorist threat in general and the Islamist threat in particular is very strong” and that “there have been 41 frustrated attacks since 2017, a dozen since 2020”.
“In March it did not make the headlines, there was already an arrest of someone who obviously wanted to commit attacks,” said the minister.
In addition to the Islamist terrorist threat, Gérald Darmanin also noted that the threat from the extreme right is “very strong as well.” “There have been nine frustrated far-right attacks since 2017”
“The threat from the far-left is also strong, since the end of 2020 there has been, and these people are in court, a threat from the far-left who wanted to attack the police,” said the minister.
Source: BFM TV
