French police have made a series of arrests over far-right terror plots in the country in recent months.
Police in France have broken up a neo-Nazi cell suspected of planning attacks on Jews and Muslims at their respective places of worship, legal sources in the country have revealed.reported that five members of the group, described by sources involved in the case as"close in ideology to the neo-Nazi movement," had been charged following a string of arrests between September and May.
Law enforcement in the southeastern French city of Grenoble, not far from the borders of Switzerland and Italy, broke the case in September last year when they arrested the first member of the cell on a weapons charge. This first suspect led police to the other four members of the cell; two are minors.
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris 2015, France has been targeted by a succession of terror atrocities either inspired by or directly ordered through the Islamic State militant group . The attacks included the coordinated bloodshed on the French capital in November 2015 that claimed 130 lives.
The influence of far-right extremism has been less conspicuous in France, though in November 2018 France's intelligence agency, the DGSI, arrested six individuals in three separate regions across the country for their part in a plot to attack French President Emmanuel Macron.
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