France: two terror attacks foiled this year

PARIS:

France has foiled two terror attacks this year targeting a leading Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Sunday.

Paris is still on its highest level of alert after a string of Islamist attacks over the last three years.

two planned attacks which had not of people were in the process of said on Europe 1 radio.

One was “in the east” of the said. One of them was planned against a “big sports team” where the other the armed forces.

He said police had followed a number of people suspected Islamists and arrested them.

“That is how we were able to but declined to give further details as to the location of those held or the planned targets.

hit by a wave of terror attacks claimed by the Islamic State group - on the Bataclan concert France football stadium - that left 130 people dead.

French jihadists who had sworn - tirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

A total of three people were killed in two attacks in France last year claimed by the Islamic State group - one in April on the Champs-Elysées and another in October at a railway station in the southern city of Marseille.

- ist police arrested 10 people in France and Switzerland over “disturbing remarks” they had exchanged on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.