Four persons who were suspected of planning
an attack on a French military base have been arrested by Security forces in France
It’s
believed they have links to jailed jihadists.According to sources
the attackers had planned to behead a senior military official some
time early next year.
The
four suspects who are aged between 16 and 23 are being questioned by
French Intelligence.
Police
arrested the four in several places around France in Bouches-du
Rhonee near the city of Marseilles, Les Yvelines near Paris and a third
location near Lyon.
“The
main instigator was detected after being active on social media and
due to apparent links with French jihadists currently in prison. He
was also known to the authorities because he hoped to go to Syria,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve revealed.
France
is currently on high alert after militant Islamists killed 17 people
in January in attacks in and around Paris, and after an incident in
June in which a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss and tried to
blow up an industrial plant .
