More than 100 potential terrorists arrested in France
Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, warned that France, Europe and the west all faced an elevated threat of extremist violence. He said more than 100 people seen as potential threats had been arrested in France this year, the Financial Times reports.
The threat “is high in France, it’s high in Europe, it’s high in the western world as shown by the events that happened 48 hours ago in the United States”, said Mr Cazeneuve.
According to the source, French President François Hollande, who convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday, called the double murder a “horrifying tragedy” that was “incontestably a terrorist act”.
The terror suspect is a 25-year-old Frenchman who had been convicted in 2013 for his involvement in a Jihadi cell linked to al-Qaeda that funnelled fighters to Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to AFP, which cited an unnamed judiciary source.