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| 4 People, Including 16-Year-Old Girl, Held in French Bomb Plot | 4 People, Including 16-Year-Old Girl, Held in French Bomb Plot |
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| PARIS — Four people, including a 16-year-old girl, who were believed to be preparing a terrorist attack were arrested in southern France on Friday after bomb-making materials were found in the home of one of the detainees, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. | |
| The three other people taken into custody near the city of Montpellier were men, ages 20, 26 and 33, said Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, but no other information about the suspects was released. | The three other people taken into custody near the city of Montpellier were men, ages 20, 26 and 33, said Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, but no other information about the suspects was released. |
| The authorities “do not know where nor how” the four planned to carry out the attack, Ms. Thibault-Lecuivre said. | The authorities “do not know where nor how” the four planned to carry out the attack, Ms. Thibault-Lecuivre said. |
| The prosecutor’s office said that in the search of the 20-year-old’s home, the police found 70 grams of TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a peroxide-based explosive that was used by the Islamic State in past attacks in Paris and Brussels. | The prosecutor’s office said that in the search of the 20-year-old’s home, the police found 70 grams of TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a peroxide-based explosive that was used by the Islamic State in past attacks in Paris and Brussels. |
| Ms. Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre said that police also discovered ingredients that could have been used to produce more TATP, including one liter of acetone, one liter of hydrogen peroxide and one liter of sulfuric acid. | Ms. Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre said that police also discovered ingredients that could have been used to produce more TATP, including one liter of acetone, one liter of hydrogen peroxide and one liter of sulfuric acid. |
| France is under a state of emergency that was declared after the Nov. 2015 attacks in and around Paris that killed 130 people, and the country has been the site of several attacks in the past two years. | France is under a state of emergency that was declared after the Nov. 2015 attacks in and around Paris that killed 130 people, and the country has been the site of several attacks in the past two years. |
| Most recently, a man wielding two large knives was shot in Paris after he attacked a military patrol near the Louvre Museum. | Most recently, a man wielding two large knives was shot in Paris after he attacked a military patrol near the Louvre Museum. |
| The French authorities also regularly uncover plots to carry out attacks. In September, security forces disrupted a plot by a group of radicalized young women to set off an explosion near the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris with a car stuffed with gas canisters. | The French authorities also regularly uncover plots to carry out attacks. In September, security forces disrupted a plot by a group of radicalized young women to set off an explosion near the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris with a car stuffed with gas canisters. |