France Terrorist Arrest

A man known stabbed a tourist to death and wounded two other people in central Paris late Saturday night before being arrested, with prosecutors opening an investigation into a suspected "terrorist plot".

Belgian police on Tuesday arrested a suspected gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in what authorities said was a "terrorist attack".

France has foiled a terrorist act and is holding four suspects in custody, said the French interior minister and a police source on Monday.

A French terrorist suspected of helping the brothers who carried out the 2015 Charlie Hebdo killings has been arrested in Djibouti and is awaiting transfer to France, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said today.

The Paris prosecutor has opened an anti-terror investigation after the discovery at the weekend of a homemade bomb at a building in Paris and five people have been arrested, sources close to the case said Monday.

Two teenage girls from the French city of Nice are being held on suspicion of planning an attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French terrorist, a source close to the investigation said on Sunday.

Three women arrested on Thursday in connection with a car laden with gas cylinders found abandonned near Paris's Notre Dame cathedral were likely planning an imminent attack, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

Seven people with links to terrorist networks, at least three of whom were planning attacks, have been arrested in France this month, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday.

A Jewish man wearing a kippa skullcap was stabbed in the eastern French city of Strasbourg today by a man who was promptly arrested, police and Jewish community sources said.

A Dutch court today approved the extradition of a suspected Islamist militant wanted on suspicion of plotting attacks in France, two months after his arrest in Rotterdam.

France on Wednesday charged the main suspect in a foiled attack plot with membership of a terrorist organisation after police found an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home.

Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that netted several arrests on Friday as France's president said a terrorist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being "destroyed".

A Jewish teacher in France who claimed he was attacked by ISIS terrorists was taken into custody today, accused of lying to police.

Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids today as part of a crackdown called after the November 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

France "prevented terrorist acts this week" President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday, and a source close to the situation revealed that four people had been arrested in connection with the foiled attacks.

A man known stabbed a tourist to death and wounded two other people in central Paris late Saturday night before being arrested, with prosecutors opening an investigation into a suspected "terrorist plot".

Belgian police on Tuesday arrested a suspected gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in what authorities said was a "terrorist attack".

France has foiled a terrorist act and is holding four suspects in custody, said the French interior minister and a police source on Monday.

A French terrorist suspected of helping the brothers who carried out the 2015 Charlie Hebdo killings has been arrested in Djibouti and is awaiting transfer to France, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said today.

The Paris prosecutor has opened an anti-terror investigation after the discovery at the weekend of a homemade bomb at a building in Paris and five people have been arrested, sources close to the case said Monday.

Two teenage girls from the French city of Nice are being held on suspicion of planning an attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French terrorist, a source close to the investigation said on Sunday.

Three women arrested on Thursday in connection with a car laden with gas cylinders found abandonned near Paris's Notre Dame cathedral were likely planning an imminent attack, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

Seven people with links to terrorist networks, at least three of whom were planning attacks, have been arrested in France this month, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday.

A Jewish man wearing a kippa skullcap was stabbed in the eastern French city of Strasbourg today by a man who was promptly arrested, police and Jewish community sources said.

A Dutch court today approved the extradition of a suspected Islamist militant wanted on suspicion of plotting attacks in France, two months after his arrest in Rotterdam.

France on Wednesday charged the main suspect in a foiled attack plot with membership of a terrorist organisation after police found an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home.

Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that netted several arrests on Friday as France's president said a terrorist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being "destroyed".

A Jewish teacher in France who claimed he was attacked by ISIS terrorists was taken into custody today, accused of lying to police.

Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids today as part of a crackdown called after the November 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

France "prevented terrorist acts this week" President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday, and a source close to the situation revealed that four people had been arrested in connection with the foiled attacks.