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Two 16 year olds were arrested in northern France on Tuesday suspected of preparing an imminent jihadist attack against a shopping center or a concert hallThe National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office revealed this Friday.
One of those arrested had begun to follow jihadist propaganda recently.
The alleged leader of the duo he planned to steal a firearmoy also admitted haber acquired chemicals to perform combustion tests at your home.
The other minor, informed of his accomplice’s plans, is suspected of having contributed to reinforcing his violent radical convictions.
The arrests occurred within the framework of a preliminary investigation opened by the PNAT at the beginning of February 2026, whose investigations were entrusted to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).
The Prosecutor’s Office has requested that both be formally charged with “conspiracy to commit a crime against people.”
He has requested that one of them, the alleged ringleader, be placed in preventive detention and the other under judicial supervision.
The last attack on a concert hall was that of Bataclan in 2015, an attack that shook French society and the rest of the world.
On November 13 of that year several jihadist commandos linked to the Islamic State attacked Paris in a coordinated manner, with explosions near the Stade de France, shootings on terraces and a massacre in the Bataclan concert hall during a rock concert.
In this last location, three terrorists armed with automatic rifles and explosives took hostages and shot for minutes against the public, leaving around 90 dead in the room and contributing to a total balance of about 130 dead and hundreds injured throughout the city, in the worst attack on French soil in decades.
After Bataclan, France greatly strengthened its security but has continued to register jihadist attacks and plots, some completed and others frustrated, including knife attacks, attempted attacks with explosives and plans for new mass actions that the intelligence services have thwarted.
Since then the country has lived with a practically permanent anti-terrorist alert and each anniversary of the attacks is usually accompanied by the memory of recent operations against radicalized cells or individuals, which indicates that the threat has not disappeared although the organizational capacity of jihadist terrorism has been reduced compared to 2015.