Soccer terrorists jailed
Four Islamic militants were jailed today for planning a terrorist attack at a packed Paris stadium in Paris during an international football match.
Police arrested the men the day before the 2001 match at the Stade de France between France and Algeria in raids of their apartments in working-class suburbs.
They moved in after intelligence agents bugged a phone call between one of the suspects and a member of an extremist Algerian movement.
In the raid, police found bomb-making materials, pistols, bullets, a bullet-proof vest and a tract written by Osama bin Laden.
A Paris court today jailed the men – three of them Algerians – for terms ranging from 30 months to six years
All four defendants were university educated.
