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Mon Jul 3, 2017, 12:46 PM Jul 2017

Arrested: Plotter to kill MACRON on Bastille Day. Was it DRUMPF? - just sayin'he's being there then!

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http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-man-charged-over-threat-to-kill-frances-macron-2017-7
Man charged with plotting to assassinate French president Emmanuel Macron


Paris (AFP) - A 23-year-old man has been charged with plotting to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron at France's Bastille Day parade, a judicial source said Monday.

The self-described nationalist, who was arrested last Wednesday, told investigators he wanted to kill Macron at the July 14 national day parade in Paris, a source close to the investigation said.

He said he also wanted to attack "Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals," the source added. ....

The man was convicted for condoning terrorism in 2016 and sentenced to three years in prison, of which 18 months were suspended.

He had applauded neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011 in Norway. ....

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Arrested: Plotter to kill MACRON on Bastille Day. Was it DRUMPF? - just sayin'he's being there then! (Original Post) UTUSN Jul 2017 OP
Nice to know he got time off for good behavior... brooklynite Jul 2017 #1
Another Nazi Hieronymus Jul 2017 #2
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