French police have arrested two 16-year-old boys in Strasbourg for allegedly planning an ISIS-inspired attack on Jewish targets. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the pair had been preparing an “extremely violent terror attack.” The two minors, one of them a Russian national, were taken into custody in Paris on suspicion of plotting an antisemitic attack. According to Le Parisien, the Russian suspect, a 16-year-old Chechen who arrived in France with his mother four years ago, had sent a WhatsApp photo of himself holding a knife and declared that he was “going to kill Jews in five days.” The attack was reportedly planned to coincide with the start of Ramadan, which began in France on Monday. Officials say the suspects had scouted locations near the Élysée Palace and a police station in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois. Intelligence services also suspect the teenager of involvement in publishing a video pledging allegiance to ISIS.

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