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French police arrest seven terrorist suspects in August

Xinhua, August 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

French police have arrested, so far in August, seven people allegedly having links with terrorism and planning attacks inside the country, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday.

"During the month of August alone, the DGSI (General Directorate of Internal Security) has arrested seven individuals. All of them have been jailed. At least three had been plotting attacks," the minister said on Twitter.

The number of suspects arrested on terror charges in the first half of the year are equivalent to the number of arrests on the same allegations for the whole year of 2015, Cazeneuve added, without giving comparative figures.

In a joint press conference with his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere on Tuesday, Cazeneuve said the two nations are working on "a new Franco-German initiative to (improve) European internal security."

"We will need to change EU rules to make more flexible controls in case of serious threat," he said.

Both ministers proposed tightening border controls and better exchange of "crucial information" between EU member states, in addition to better cooperation to thwart encrypted messaging services used by extremists. Endi