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| France 'attack plot': Three arrested | France 'attack plot': Three arrested |
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| Three people have been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorism attack, police sources say. | Three people have been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorism attack, police sources say. |
| A bomb disposal squad was called in to sweep the home of one of the suspects, in the central city of Clermont-Ferrand, French media say. | |
| The other two arrests were reportedly in Marseille and in the Paris region. | The other two arrests were reportedly in Marseille and in the Paris region. |
| France is on high alert after a series of deadly attacks in recent years by militants claiming to be from the Islamic State group. | France is on high alert after a series of deadly attacks in recent years by militants claiming to be from the Islamic State group. |
| Few details of Tuesday's arrests are yet known. | Few details of Tuesday's arrests are yet known. |
| One source told Reuters news agency that the suspects were arrested "as part of a preliminary investigation started in January on suspicion of leaving for Syria or committing an act in France". | One source told Reuters news agency that the suspects were arrested "as part of a preliminary investigation started in January on suspicion of leaving for Syria or committing an act in France". |
| Another police source quoted in Le Monde said the plot was sufficiently advanced that the French intelligence agency, the DGSI, decided to intervene. | |
| Since the beginning of 2015, at least 230 people have been killed in jihadist attacks in France. | |
| On 10 February, four suspects were arrested in Montpellier preventing what Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said was an "imminent" terror attack on French soil. | |
| Three men and a girl of 16 were found with bomb-making materials by anti-terrorist police in a raid on a flat in the southern city. | |
| The week before a soldier received minor injuries when a machete-wielding man tried to enter the Louvre museum in Paris. | |
| The man, a 29-year-old Egyptian named Abdullah Hamamy, was shot and critically injured. |