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France foils terror attack on churches in Paris

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Kendall Harmon

French anti-terror police believe they have foiled an ‘imminent” terrorist attack against “one, maybe two churches” in Paris, the interior minister revealed on Wednesday.

“A terrorist attack was foiled on Sunday morning,” said France’s interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve in an impromptu media briefing.

Cazeneuve revealed announced that a 24-year-old IT student, of French Algerian origins, was arrested on Sunday in possession of a significant arsenal of weapons. It is believed he was intending to carry out an attack that very day.

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