Detained Islamists in France 'planning a kidnap'

[Aaron]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-a-kidnap.html

Seventeen people detained by French police in a crackdown on suspected Islamist networks might have been plotting a kidnap, the head of the police intelligence's unit has said.

A French Muslim convert convicted in 2007 for planning an attack on an Australian nuclear plant is one of the suspected militants being held for questioning after a series of raids throughout France, a police source said on Saturday.

Willy Brigitte was arrested on Friday at his home in Asnieres, a northwestern suburb of Paris. Authorities found no weapons but seized his computer and a mobile phone, the source told Reuters.

See also:

Militant who targeted Australian nuke plant held in France
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...82U08T20120331

[Aaron]

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/n.../2006/691.html