Paris 'bomb factory' suspects linked to Syria

Police in France investigating a suspected 'bomb factory' near Paris believe that the three men arrested in connection with it were preparing attacks and had made calls to Syria, a French minister said.


Ingredients to make an explosive known as TATP, commonly used by the so-called Islamic State militant group, were discovered in the apartment in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif yesterday, as well as gas canisters and electrical wiring.

Anti-terror police launched raids following a tip-off from someone who works in the building.

He has been praised for his "citizen's reflex" for reporting suspicious activity.

France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the men in custody "were involved in terrorism."

"We've seen that there were calls exchanged" with someone in the war-zone in Syria, Mr Collomb told a radio station in France.
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7/9/17