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15 charged with planning jihadist attacks on French Jews

(JTA) – Prosecutors in Paris presented their case against 15 defendants accused of planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets. The trial against the men, alleged members of the banned terrorist group Forsane Alizza, began Monday, June 8. Among the alleged targets were five Jewish supermarkets of the Hyper Cacher chain and several other Jewish businesses. The names of the businesses targeted were recovered from a computer seized in 2012, when the group’s leader, 37-year-old Mohamed Amchalane, was arrested with other suspects during a police raid in the vicinity of Nantes, in western France. In Amchalane’s possession, police also found three AK-47 assault rifles, a grenade and a pistol, Le Figaro reported. He also had manuals on how to carry out terrorist attacks using explosives which contain radioactive material. Amchalane has maintained that he is innocent of the charges.

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