On Thursday, according to France's Interior Minister, a man was arrested for planning plane attacks, mimicking the World Trade Center bombing that took place in New York on September 11th, 2001.
The intelligence services was successful in the interception however; French officials say the threat of attacks remains very high.
France has struggled for years to find best ways of responding to both homegrown Jihadists and foreign militants following a series of attacks across the country.
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| Rally at Sergels torg, or Sergel's Square, in Stockholm, Sweden November 14, 2015, a day after the attacks in Paris. (Reuters Photo) |
Just recently on October 3rd, an IT Specialist with suspected Islamist sympathies, who also had a security clearance; killed three officers and one civilian employee before he was shot dead by a police officer.
According to Christophe Castaner, Minister of the Interior the latest interception was the 60th attempted attack since 2013.
Officials now fear dozens of their nationals held in Kurdish-controlled camps in prisons could escape and return home following a Turkish offensive in northern Syria that is targeting Kurdish militias guarding them.
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