Trial heard members of Facebook group discussed using ceramic knife to attack French president in 2018
Photograph: EPAPhotograph: EPAA French anti-terror court convicted three people on Friday over aThe three men, part of a Facebook group known as the, were convicted for conspiracy to commit a terrorist act after the court heard how they discussed using a ceramic knife to stab Macron in 2018 at a first world war commemoration.
The case also raised questions about the point at which online conspiracies and violent fantasies become criminal, with defence lawyers claiming the prosecution lacked evidence of any real desire to act. The chief prosecutor had called the group an “incubator of violent action” when she summed up her arguments against the 13 defendants, almost all of whom had no criminal record.
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