France arrests two over foiled attack plot near Orleans

December 23, 2015 00:28

A jihadist attack plot was foiled and two men arrested last week in the French region of Orleans, southwest of Paris, Interior Minister Bernard

Cazeneuve said today.

"A planned attack targeting representatives of state forces in the Orleans region was foiled last week by the DGSI (France's internal intelligence agency)," Cazeneuve said.

The two men arrested on December 19 are French citizens aged 20 and 24, he said. The older has a police record for petty crime.

A police source told AFP that one was originally from Morocco and the other from Togo.

They were "in contact with a French jihadist in Syria and the investigation ought to establish if he ordered the attacks that one of the two arrested men has admitted they were planning to carry out against soldiers, police and

representatives of the state," said Cazeneuve.

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