A 23-year-old man living in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise and presenting himself as "nationalist", was indicted on Saturday for individual terrorist enterprise. He wanted to attack the President of the Republic during the parade on 14 July.

Axar.az reports citing RMC.

He expected to attack Emmanuel Macron. A 23-year-old man living in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, and close to extreme right-wing ideology, was indicted on Saturday for an individual terrorist enterprise. He wanted to attack the President of the Republic during the parade on 14 July , on the Champs-Elysees. It is a reported on the Internet that allowed the arrest of this man. During a conversation on a video game site, he wrote that he was looking to buy a Kalashnikov type weapon to commit an attack. Comments posted on the platform internet-signalement.gouv.fr . When the policemen of Val-d'Oise came to call him on Wednesday, he threatened them with a kitchen knife.

In custody, the man said he wanted to make a political gesture by killing the President of the Republic at the parade on 14 July, on the Champs-Elysees. He also wanted to attack "blacks, Arabs, Jews or homosexuals," according to his statements. He describes himself as a "nationalist". This young unemployed man, psychologically unstable but conscious and determined, has already been condemned in 2016 for the apology of terrorism. On July 14, 2002, Maxime Brunerie, a far-right neo-Nazi activist, attempted to assassinate President Jacques Chirac during a military parade with a Long Rifle rifle.