Prosecutors in Paris indicted on Aug. 1 two Muslim teenagers, aged 15 and 17, for plotting terrorist attacks on a synagogue and the Eiffel Tower, French media reported on Wednesday.

Police arrested the defendants, both admirers of the Islamic State terrorist group, on July 29 and 30, respectively, according to a report by Le Figaro , which the AFP news agency confirmed. Police reportedly began monitoring the defendants in April.

They corresponded online about waging jihad, according to the report.

The report neither identified the defendants nor indicated how they pleaded.

Last year saw the most antisemitic physical assaults in France in more than a decade, with 106 reported cases documented by the SPCJ (Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive). Most antisemitic incidents in F

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