Six people linked to the far-right have been detained in France in connection with a “violent” plot against French President Emmanuel Macron, officials say.
The six, who were not identified, were picked up by anti-terrorism units in the eastern French regions of Moselle and Isere and the northern region of Ile-et-Vilaine, officials add.
The arrests followed reports of a possible plot involving “violent action” aimed at the president, a source close to the investigation says.
French president Emmanuel Macron, right, and relatives of Lieutenant Robert Porchon, brother-in-arms of French writer Maurice Genevoix killed during World War I, pay their respects by his tomb at the Trottoir necropolis in Les Eparges, in Meuse region, Eastern France, on Novembre 6, 2018. (Etienne LAURENT/POOL/AFP)
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into a “criminal terrorist association,” a judicial source says.
“This investigation is looking into a plot, vague and ill-defined at this stage, involving violent action against the president of the republic,” another official says.
— AFP
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