Image Caption: French police officers on patrol in Strasbourg. File Pic. Seven people have been arrested after a planned terror attack was foiled in France, the country"s interior minister has said.
The suspects – of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin and aged between 29 and 37 years old – were detained in the southern port city of Marseille and the eastern city of Strasbourg overnight on Saturday and Sunday.
Bernard Cazeneuve told a televised news conference on Monday the arrests prevented “a terrorist act that had been envisaged for a long time on our soil”.
The interior minister said six of the suspects were not known to the intelligence services. One was a Moroccan national flagged by a foreign government.
Image Caption: French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve revealed the arrests in a televised address He did not reveal the intended target of the plot, but did say “the foiled attack was a co-ordinated attack aiming to target several sites simultaneously”.
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