French girl charged over suspected terror plot

PARIS: A judge has handed a 16-year-old French girl preliminary terrorism charges for allegedly supporting the Islamic State group and trying to perpetrate an attack, prosecutors said on Monday. The girl was using a social media app to spread calls by the IS to commit violent acts, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The judge charged the teenager with taking part in a “criminal terrorist association” and “inciting to commit terrorist acts through an online communication medium.”

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