Terror attack on riviera ‘foiled’
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COUNTER-TERRORISM OFFICERS FIND EXPLOSIVES IN AN APARTMENT NEAR CANNES AUTHORITIES are convinced that they have foiled what they described as an “imminent” terror attack planned on the
French Riviera. Counter-terrorism officers found 900g of explosive in an apartment Mandelieu-La- Napoule, near Cannes. The property belonged to a 23-year-old man who had returned from Syria,
a source close to the case told AFP. He had been arrested a few days earlier. The material was found to be TATP, a rudimentary explosive that can be made at home. It had been divided into
three cans, one of which was surrounded by screws and nails fixed with tape. A weapon and computer equipment were also seized. The suspect is linked to the so-called Cannes-Torcy cell.
Police dismantled the cell in 2012 in a wave of arrests. At the time, the public prosecutor of Paris, François Molins, described Cannes-Torcy as the most dangerous terror cell operating in
France since the mid-1990s. Members of this group are suspected of planning a grenade attack on a Jewish business in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) in September 2012.