FRANCE TERROR ARREST: Egyptian arrested over ‘bomb or ricin poison attack’

Friday, May 18, 2018
By Paul Martin

FRANCE’S internal intelligence agency arrested an Egyptian-born man who they claim was plotting an attack using either explosives or the lethal poison ricin, Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said today. The suspect, a 20-year-old student, was placed in pre-trial detention and charged with “criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise” after spending four days in custody.

By ROMINA MCGUINNESS
Express.co.uk
Fri, May 18, 2018

BFMTV news channel on first reported that counter-terrorism officials had arrested two Egyptian brothers, but Europe 1 radio later published a corrected version of the story, saying the men were not related and that the second suspect had since been released.

The student was arrested following a raid on his home during which police found materials that could be used to make a bomb. He had been on the government’s official watchlist for suspected radicals – the so called “Fiche-S” – since January.

A youth of Egyptian origin was “preparing an attack,” Mr Collomb said, adding that his mobile phone data showed that he had watched jihadist tutorial videos on how to build an explosive device and on how to make ricin.

“He possessed instructions on how to make ricin-based poison.”

Mr Collomb added that intelligence agents had intercepted communications from the two men on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

He said: “We follow several people on online networks. It so happens that the [two men] were on Telegram. We were therefore able to foil the attack and arrest them.”

Ricin, which is made from castor beans, is one of the deadliest poisons known. It can be found as a powder, a mist or a pellet and is very difficult to trace. There is no known antidote.

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