A heavily armed
Islamic extremist said to have been planning an imminent attack on one
or more churches had documents relating to Islamic State and al Qaeda,
French authorities have revealed.
Investigators also found evidence on the 24-year-old's computer that he was in contact with a man in Syria "who clearly asked him to target a church," Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.Alongside the church plot, the Algerian suspect, named in French reports as Sid Ahmed Ghlam, is accused of killing a young woman shortly before his arrest.
He was detained in Paris over the weekend after he apparently shot himself in the leg by accident and called for an ambulance, French officials said on Wednesday.
Police called to the scene found a trail of blood leading to his car, with loaded guns and notes about potential targets inside.
A search of the man's apartment in the southeast of the capital led to the discovery of more weapons as well as the Arabic-language documents.
The documents "prove, without any ambiguity, that the individual was preparing an imminent attack, in all probability, against one or two churches," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
In a sinister echo of the Charlie Hebdo attacks earlier this year, authorities said the "arsenal of war weapons" found included handguns, Kalashnikov assault rifles, munitions, and bullet-proof vests.
The 32-year-old dead woman, Aurelie Chatelain, who had been visiting Paris for a work training session, was found shot in her car on Sunday morning.
The authorities believe she was killed at random. THANK YOU JEHOVAH MAY ALL OF THEM BE CAUGHT IN JESUS NAME AMEN
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