French police have arrested a man who was plotting to perpetrate an attack on children at a nursery school, according to French media reports.
The man, who referred to himself as the “heir of Mohamed Merah,” the terrorist who killed four people in a shooting attack at the Ozar HaTorah Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, was apprehended on March 25. He was caught in the Seine-et-Marne region, which is near Paris.
Police described the arrested as a 21-year-old male. They said he admitted he was planning to “kill some children and take others hostage,” with the goal of dragging police into a gun battle.
