Indonesian police detain seven in a failed plot to attack Pope Francis

Weapons, a drone and ISIS leaflets were confiscated from the house of one of the militants who had planned to attack Pope Francis during his visit to Jakarta. - INDONESIA POLICE

JAKARTA: The Indonesian police have detained seven people in a failed plot to attack Pope Francis, who wrapped up the first leg of his 12-day Asia-Pacific tour in the archipelago on Friday (Sept 6).

A total of seven people were detained, mostly on Sept 2 and Sept 3, in Jakarta, in the outlying cities of Bogor and Bekasi, West Sumatra province and Bangka Belitung Islands province, according to the media statement issued on Sept 6 by Indonesia’s national police anti-terrorism squad Detachment-88.