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Three teen girls detained in France for links to Daesh militants

Other News Materials 1 March 2017 04:53 (UTC +04:00)
The four girls, aged 14-18, were subscribed to an online group who called themselves "The Lionesses" and had ties to an Islamist, Rachid Kassim, who died on February 8 in a drone strike in Iraq
Three teen girls detained in France for links to Daesh militants

The four girls, aged 14-18, were subscribed to an online group who called themselves "The Lionesses" and had ties to an Islamist, Rachid Kassim, who died on February 8 in a drone strike in Iraq, Le Parisien newspaper said.

The girls were detained in a Paris suburb, in the commune of Creil not far from the capital and in the city of Mulhouse close to the German border. A source close to the inquiry told the paper their communications suggested they could have been preparing an act of violence.

Kassim was reportedly a member of Daesh, a violent militant group that is outlawed as a terrorist organization in France, Russia and many other countries. The jihadist is suspected of having controlled around 15 terror plots in France.

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