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Police are carrying out raids at Argenteuil after the arrest of a person believed to be planning a terrorist attack. A person in the “advanced stages” of a plot to attack the country has been arrested in north-west Paris and security forces locked down the area during a major search, said Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister.
A building has been evacuated and sniffer dogs and anti-mine experts are at the scene to search for explosives. Police are carrying out raids in the Argenteuil suburb of Paris following the arrest of a person at 5.30pm on Thursday who was believed to be planning a terrorist attack. A building has been evacuated and sniffer dogs and anti-mine experts are at the scene to search for explosives.
The searches follow the arrest of a suspect at 5.30pm on Thursday afternoon. Cazeneuve confirmed that a “high level suspect” involved in planning an attack on French soil “at an advanced stage” had been arrested. The police operation took place at Boulevard General Delambre.
According to Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minster, the arrested person had “an attack plan that was quite advanced”. He noted that the person arrested was implicated at a “high level” in the plot, but offered no other details. Cazeneuve said an attack had been foiled: “These searches follow an arrest by the [French intelligence agency] on Thursday morning that allowed us to stop a planned bombing in France that was at an advanced stage,” he said.
The suspect is of French nationality and had been under surveillance by police for several months. The minister confirmed that the arrested suspect was of French nationality and belonged to a terrorist network. The suspect had been under surveillance by police for several months.
France has been on high alert since the 13 November attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Cazenueve said there had been 75 arrests since the beginning of the year, and 28 suspects had been jailed.
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