A 15-year-old minor was placed under formal investigation by an anti-terrorism investigating judge in Lyon on Friday, September 18. He is suspected of plotting an attack on a high school in the city

Was a future attack averted? A 15-year-old minor was placed under formal investigation by an anti-terrorism investigating judge in Lyon on Friday, suspected of plotting an attack on a high school in the city; this was confirmed to RMC and BFMTV by multiple sources, including the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT)

On Friday, September 18, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) opened a judicial investigation into a 15-year-old minor on charges of "criminal conspiracy with a terrorist purpose to prepare one or more crimes against persons." He has been placed under formal investigation for "participation in an individual terrorist enterprise" and released under judicial supervision

The suspect was planning to carry out an attack at a school in Lyon. "He is accused of having planned a highly premeditated attack on a high school, indiscriminately targeting the students at the institution," the PNAT told BFMTV

According to BFMTV's information, the target was not the high school the minor had attended earlier in the year—and from which he had been expelled. The planned attack involved the use of a knife, according to the same reports

Investigators noted that the 15-year-old held "an ideology with distinct far-right markers," according to a source close to the investigation speaking to BFMTV. According to our information, he was deeply affected by the death of Quentin Deranque—a radical far-right activist who had beed killed in a street fight in Lyon last February