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French Police Arrest Six Radical Islamists

Claim they were planning attacks

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Anti-terror police in France have arrested six people accused of belonging to a radical Islamist cell and preparing attacks in the country.

The suspects, aged 22 to 38, were arrested in the Paris region on Monday.

"They were planning to commit terrorist acts targeting well-known figures in France," an unnamed source told the news agency Agence France Press.