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France Arrests Two More in Church-Attack Terror Plot
Two men were arrested Sunday by French authorities in connection with a thwarted terror plot to attack a church near Paris in April.
A general view of the Saint-Cyr and Sainte-Julitte church, one of the two churches in which, according to media reports, Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a 24-year-old computer science student plotted to conduct an imminent attack, in Villejuif, south of Paris, France, 23 April 2015.IAN LANGSDON / EPA
By Emma Ong and Hasani Gittens
Two men were arrested Sunday by French authorities in connection with a thwarted terror plot to attack a church near Paris in April.
In a brief statement, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the two new suspects, aged 35 and 39, were arrested at dawn Sunday at their homes in Paris' western suburbs.
Authorities say Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a computer science student, planned an attack on churches in Villejuif, south of Paris, and is suspected in the killing of a woman nearby.
A general view of the Saint-Cyr and Sainte-Julitte church, one of the two churches in which, according to media reports, Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a 24-year-old computer science student plotted to conduct an imminent attack, in Villejuif, south of Paris, France, 23 April 2015.IAN LANGSDON / EPA
He was arrested April 26 after apparently shooting himself by accident. Investigators have said Ghlam received instructions from someone in Syria before implementing the plot.
Cazeneuve said the new suspect's exact role in Ghlam's plot remains to be determined.
"Raids are still under way at the houses of individuals arrested this morning," he said.
Emma Ong
Emma Ong is a senior desk editor for NBC News in London.
Hasani Gittens
Hasani Gittens is a Senior News Editor at NBCNews.com. Gittens, a WNBC veteran, joined NBCNews.com in January 2013. Before that he worked at The Daily — News Corp's short-lived "iPad newspaper" — where he spent two years also as a news editor.
Prior to that, he worked at WNBC as the managing editor of the station's website, and even longer ago he spent eight years as a reporter and eventually an editor for the New York Post.
