PhotoPARIS — Seven men who French authorities say were planning a terrorist attack have been arrested in France, the government announced on Monday, sounding an alert about the continuing threat from terrorism barely a year after the attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris. In 2000, Islamist militants who had trained in Afghanistan and were active in France and Germany planned to bomb the market, but the plot was averted. France has been under a state of emergency since the November 2015 attacks in the capital region. President François Hollande has said the government will seek to extend the state of emergency until the presidential election next spring. Mr. Cazeneuve said on Monday that 418 people had been arrested in relation to terrorist networks since the beginning of the year, including 43 this month alone.

Source: New York Times November 21, 2016 16:50 UTC