The four arrested in Strasbourg were two French citizens both aged 37, a 36-year-old Franco-Tunisian and a 35-year-old Franco-Moroccan. Four long-time friendsThe four Strasbourg suspects are long-time friends, seeing each other regularly, "all four communicating in a closed network through a dedicated telephone line," Molins said. The Paris prosecutor asked magistrates to hand the five preliminary charges of taking part in a "terrorist criminal association" and to jail them. Two of the Strasbourg suspects travelled to the Turkish-Syrian border via Cyprus in March 2015, he said. France remains under a state of emergency imposed after Islamic State attacks in Paris in November 2015 that killed 130 people.

Source: CBC News November 25, 2016 12:21 UTC