Gabriel Attal announced that 45 attacks had been foiled since 2017, including two since the start of the year, without specifying the details. According to information from Europe 1, during the first foiled attack, a 23-year-old man was arrested at the beginning of January.
The young suspect, originally from the city of Marseille, was a regular consumer of ISIS propaganda videos. He claimed to belong to this organization, according to an intelligence source, he had subscribed to several conspiracy theories and was fascinated by firearms.