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As France prepares to mark the second anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has warned that the terrorist threat remains "very high," with a number of "small groups" planning attacks.
France has been on high alert since January 2015, when it was paralyzed by a series of Islamic State-linked terrorist attacks. The most horrific of these took place on November 13, 2015, when 130 people were killed and hundreds of others injured in coordinated attacks in and around Paris.
"This was the first case of mass killing" in France, Collomb
told Le Journal du Dimanche (
JDD) on Saturday. "We did not think back at the time that it was even possible in France... Now we are prepared."
"Our services are better equipped to detect threats, they do it every week, quietly," he added.
Collomb
told RTL last month that as many as 32 attack plots have been thwarted in the past two years in France.
The terrorist threat level remains "very high," Collomb told
JDD, citing the presence of "small groups, here and there on our territory, [which] have plans for violent attacks each on their own, without any link between the groups."
Comment: So much for oppression. Their comfy-cozy lives haven't changed one iota since Trump was elected.