The siblings were radicalized followers of the Islamic State terrorist group, according to French prosecutors.
A 22-year-old engineering student and his 20-year-old brother have been arrested in France over a “deadly and antisemitic” plot, prosecutors said on Sunday.
French authorities last week arrested the two, with dual Moroccan and Italian citizenship, on suspicion of planning antisemitic terrorist attacks, French media reported on Sunday, citing information received from counterterrorism prosecutors.
Police arrested the two near a prison in northern France, while the suspects were operating a drone outside the facility, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported. RFI quoted sources at the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office (PNAT). The older brother had graduated as an engineer, and his younger sibling was unemployed.
