Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Europe: 10 Terrorist arrests made in France and Switzerland.

(Paris/Bern) Ten people suspected of using encrypted social networks to prepare for a possible terrorist attack on the city of Nice were arrested Tuesday in counter-terrorism operations in France and Switzerland.


Nine people were detained in France and one in Switzerland in operations aimed  at disrupting the suspected plot, among those arrested was a 23-year-old Colombian woman and a 27-year-old Swiss man, both targets of a Swiss investigation into banned Islamic extremist groups. In parallel to the Swiss investigation, the French opened a probe focused on suspicious activity by a person in Switzerland using the Telegram network.

The French towns targeted in the operation were Aix-en-Provence in southern France and Menton on the Mediterranean coast as well as Paris suburbs, in Switzerland the French-speaking Vaud and Neuchatel regions were targeted.

Nice was the scene of a truck attack where 86 people died in a truck attack in 2016.