Clement Baur, 23, and Mahiedine Merabet, 29, were detained Tuesday by elite police and domestic intelligence agents in the southern city of Marseille. It has emerged that they had used a number of aliases, switched mobile phones frequently and used pre-paid bank cards to evade police. In the apartment they shared, police found a loaded Uzi sub-machine gun, two pistols, TATP explosives and a homemade grenade. Merabet was radicalised by the younger man who "had a big influence on him", a source in the probe said. More than 230 people have been killed in a string of jihadist attacks in France since January 2015.

Source: The Local April 20, 2017 06:56 UTC