French police arrest Islamic extremist alleged to have been plotting attack on tourists in Carcasonn
Source: news.com.au
A RADICALISED convert to Islam has been arrested in France for allegedly planning to attack American and Russian tourists at a popular medieval site.
News of the arrest came as the country reeled from yet another terror attack, after an extremist pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group killed a policeman and his partner at their home in the Paris suburb of Magnanville on Monday.
A judicial source said the 22-year-old suspect was arrested on Monday night in southern Carcassonne where he had gone to carry out “a violent act, in particular targeting Americans and Russians”.
He had in his possession “a knife and a small mallet”, the source said. The suspect comes from the southern French town of Lunel - notorious for the number of residents who have left to wage jihad in Syria - but had been living in the nearby Tarn region.
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