Terror group was planning December attacks - report
The terrorist group that was broken up last weekend by police with the arrest of seven people in in Strasbourg and Marseille, were planning attacks in Paris on December 1.
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According to reports in Thursday’s Le Parisien daily newspaper, the attackers may also have been planning a number of attacks that were to take place at the same time.
Le Parisien is also reporting that the annual Christmas market on the Champs Elysees, public transport and a number of bars were being considered as targets.
The police headquarters at 36 Quai des Orfèvres in Paris or the headquarters of the French internal security organization, the DGSI, may also have been targets.
Computer experts who examined one of the smartphones seized during the raid indicates that 20 different sites were examined through Google Maps, the paper adds.
Five of those arrested at the weekend have had their detention period extended.
The arrests of the alleged plotters from France, Morocco and Afghanistan "enabled us to prevent a long-planned terror attack on our soil," Cazeneuve told a televised news conference at the weekend.
France remains in a state of emergency that gives security forces enhanced powers to mount surveillance and launch raids, a year after attacks by jihadists on Paris that left 130 people dead.
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