Several people have been arrested in recent days at two points in France on suspicion of They were preparing two different terrorist attacks, As announced this Friday by the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin.
In an interview with BFMTV dedicated to the campaign for the second round of the legislative elections, which will be held on Sunday – and in which he is a candidate for a seat – Darmanin did not specify either the number of those arrested or the places where they were captured.
He insisted that the terrorist nature of the plans they were supposedly preparing would have to be confirmed by the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office. Always speaking in the conditional, he said when asked if there were one or two possible attacks in preparation, he replied that “these would be different projects.”
In any case, he insisted that The terrorist threat in France is “extremely strong” three weeks before the start of the Paris Olympic Games.
He said the terrorist alert, which is at its highest level, will remain in place at least until after the Paralympic Games, which end on September 8.
Since 2012, terrorist attacks in France They have killed 273 people and have left hundreds injured, according to the count of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI, the secret services).
In parallel, law enforcement has thwarted 81 attacks, 71 of which were thanks to the actions of the DGSI.
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