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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