Thursday, April 23, 2015

French PM: Five terror attacks foiled in recent months

 


ARIS, France — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls revealed Thursday that five terror attacks had been “foiled” in France in recent months.
 
He told radio station France Inter that “numerous attacks had already been foiled — five if you take into account the attack which happily did not take place at Villejuif” on the outskirts of Paris.
        
A 24-year-old Franco-Algerian IT student is being held by police investigating an alleged plot to attack a church near the French capital.
 
His plans were exposed after he accidentally shot himself and police uncovered a stash of weapons and detailed plans to attack the church. (READ MORE)