France say terror plot against military bases foiled with arrests earlier this week

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MPLS (Red) Star Tribune/AP:

GREG KELLER

July 15, 2015

 

PARIS — French authorities have foiled a plot by four would-be * extremists to attack military bases, the interior minister said Wednesday.

 

The suspects, aged between 16 and 23, were arrested Monday at four separate locations around France, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

 

Cazeneuve said the group's leader had been under surveillance after his online activities raised investigators' suspicions. He had also triggered alarms by signaling his desire to travel to Syria, Cazeneuve said. One of the suspects was a former member of the French navy, Cazeneuve said.

 

The minister said authorities break up similar plots every week in France, where more than 300 people have been implicated in jihadi activities since 2012.

 

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