French Police Raid Alleged Far-Left Antifa Bomb Factory HQ

by Breitbart News

French police in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet have arrested four people after discovering the alleged headquarters of the city’s far-left extremist Antifa movement, where it is claimed explosives were being manufactured.

The raid of the building took place on Sunday with officers discovering dozens of Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices. The building, which has been occupied by members of the far-left extremist movement, featured various radical slogans including: “A cop, a bullet, social justice.”

The building also featured graffiti stating “Welcome to our Paris HQ Antifa75”, fueling speculation that the squat was the headquarters of the Paris chapter of the extremist group, Le Point reported on Wednesday.

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Bombs have been used by far-left extremists in Italy as recently as August 2018 when a bomb was detonated outside the local party headquarters of Matteo Salvini’s League in the city of Treviso. Several months later, a notorious far-left Spanish anarchist was arrested in connection with the blast.

In the last several weeks, Antifa extremists were also believed to be behind several acts of sabotage of French communications infrastructure across the country. On Monday, Antifa extremists took credit for a number of attacks on relay towers in the Grenoble region.

The extremists called for more attacks on antennas and denounced the deployment of 5G network technology in France. Attacks on 5G towers elsewhere, such as the UK, have largely been blamed on conspiracy theorists.

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