France stops six plots to attack President Emmanuel Macron, says official

French police on Tuesday arrested five men and one woman, all of the radical right-wing, suspected of plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, a senior official told Reuters. l & # 39; investigation.

The source said that the French National Intelligence Agency (ISB) had ordered raids in three different regions after collecting intelligence that would have suggested an "imprecise and cowardly plan for" violent action. against the president.

According to the police, the six were members of the far right in France who were arrested en mbade on addresses in the region of Isère, in the south-east of Lyon, in Moselle on the border with Germany and Luxembourg and in Ille-et-Vilaine, near Rennes, in the north-west of the country.

In an interview published Sunday, Macron put in guard against the threat of far-right movements in Europe, claiming that complacency in the 1930s was what opened the way for Hitler's rise to Germany, and Mussolini in Italy.

June, 10 people related to the extreme right French comfortable were formally under investigation on suspicion of links with terrorist networks.

A source close to the investigation said the 10 people belonged to an extremist group The stated intention was to "fight against the threat of Islam" and was suspected of preparing an attack against Muslims.

The June raids resulted in the seizure of ingredients used in the manufacture of explosives, firearms and ammunition. [19659004] It was not clear if Tuesday's security operation was related to the June arrests.

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