The hearing of four young ultra-right-wing men suspected of plotting terrorist attacks between 2017 and 2018 began in Paris on Monday, reports RFI.
The men, now aged between 22 and 28, are accused of planning attacks on mosques, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) and the French headquarters of The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) in Tours.
One of the co-accused said they also planned to target a concert at the Bataclan by French rapper Médine – whom the far right accuse of pandering to Islamism – and meetings of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of the hard left France Unbowed party.
Since one of the defendants was 17 at the time of the accusations, the men are appearing before the special juvenile assize court in Paris.
A fifth protagonist, aged just 14 at the time, was already tried in a juvenile court in December 2022 and handed a two-year suspended sentence.