Terror suspects plotted to behead French military staffer

Four terror suspects detained by French intelligence agents were plotting to behead a senior military staffer at a military site in southern France, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday, according to CNN.
The alleged plot centered on the national commando training center in Port-Vendres, near Perpignan, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, and was due to be carried out in late 2015 or early 2016.
The suspects planned to film the scene with a GoPro camera, she said.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday that the suspects, ages 16 to 23, were arrested in four parts of France at dawn Monday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against "military installations."
One of them is a former sailor in the French navy, he said in a statement.
Thibault-Lecuivre said the youngest of the suspects had been released from custody as of Thursday.
Investigators identified the "main instigator" in the alleged plot through his "activism on social networks and relations with French jihadists currently in prison," according to Cazeneuve.
The main suspect, whom authorities had previously questioned, had a desire to travel to Syria, the minister said.
An investigation opened last month by the Paris prosecutor's office, which handles counterterrorism cases throughout France, enabled authorities to identify other individuals connected to that suspect, Cazeneuve said.
No link has been made at this point between the people detained and explosions this week at a petrochemical plant in southern France, Cazeneuve said.