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| Paris arrests: Four held over 'attack plan' | Paris arrests: Four held over 'attack plan' |
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| Four people have been arrested in the Paris area on suspicion of planning a terror attack, French media report. | Four people have been arrested in the Paris area on suspicion of planning a terror attack, French media report. |
| Three men and a woman were detained at dawn in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and the nearby northern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, TF1 and BFMTV say. | Three men and a woman were detained at dawn in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and the nearby northern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, TF1 and BFMTV say. |
| French security forces had files on all four for having ties to radical Islam, TF1 reports on its website. | |
| The French capital remains on high alert after the jihadist attacks in November which killed 130 people. | The French capital remains on high alert after the jihadist attacks in November which killed 130 people. |
| More than 100 people were wounded in a series of shootings and suicide bombings that targeted a concert hall, major stadium, restaurants and bars over the course of a Friday evening. | |
| France's intelligence agency told French media that the four detained on Wednesday had been planning an attack in the heart of Paris in the near future, the BBC's Lucy Williamson reports. | |
| At least one of those arrested is reported to have had a prior conviction and had been under house arrest since last month, under new rules imposed after the November attacks. | |
| The arrests come a day after French police officers alongside Belgian officers were involved in a raid on a house in Brussels, that ended in a shoot-out with at least two suspects. | |
| One of the suspects was killed, and later identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid. His body was found alongside Salafist (ultra-conservative Islamic) literature and Kalashnikov ammunition, prosecutors said. |