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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

France: Two Terror Attack Plots Thwarted in 2018

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb via AFP

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Sunday that two terror attack plots were foiled in France since January.

Collomb stated that one plot was to target a major sports center, while another aimed at the French military.

Speaking on "Europe 1" radio, Collomb said: "we foiled two attacks that had not been "totally finalized;" with one of them planned to take place in the South of the country, while the other in the West.

France has seen in recent years bloody terrorist attacks that killed hundreds, the most deadly was the November 2015 attack when 137 people were killed in simultaneous attacks in the capital Paris.

Also on the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19 tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of more than 400 people. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

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