"The minister praised the successful operation which, according to initial data, allowed the foiling of a plan of an imminent attack on the French soil," the ministry said in a communique.
France has been on high security alert after a string of gun and bomb attacks by Islamists killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015. The state of emergency was prolonged until this July, following a truck attack in the city of Nice last summer, which claimed 84 lives.
/Sputnik/
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