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PARIS, Aug 23 (KUNA) -- Seven terror suspects have been arrested this month in France, and almost half of those had concrete plans to carry out attacks, France's interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday.
All seven of the terrorists detained in August have now been jailed.
"The number of individuals linked to terrorist networks arrested in the first six months of the year in France is equivalent to that of the full year 2015," Cazeneuve quoted as saying in an interior ministry statement broadcasted by France 24 Channel.
France has been under a state of emergency since attacks claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Paris in November killed 130. The emergency was extended after a radical truck driver killed 85 in Nice.
Early this month, the Interior Ministry said that they have arrested 165 people during the past six months, among them 91 were officially charged and 63 went to prison. (end)
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