Two Muslim men believed to be of Egyptian origin were arrested by French counter-terror police after intelligence services monitoring social media activity discovered the plot to carry out an atrocity using either a bomb or chemical weapons.
When the men were detained they were in possession of material instructing them on how to make the deadly poison ricin.
France has suffered numerous Islamist terrorist attacks over the past several years and has a massive and rapidly growing disaffected Muslim population.
This past Saturday a French citizen of Chechen origin went on a stabbing rampage wounding five people and killing one before being himself killed by police.
France has also suffered from the emergence of multiple “no-go-zones” where large Muslim migrant populations live in essentially parallel societies.
Similar situations have sprung up across Western Europe and has led to massive social disturbances and growth in support for radical Muslim terrorism.