French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve stated of the arrests that they “allowed us to thwart a terrorist act that had been envisaged for a long time on our soil,” but he did not identify the target of the planned attack. The French public should be outraged and demand to know.
There is a pattern of Western authorities hiding information to create the impression that the threat of jihad attacks – from catastrophic massacres to personal assaults – is under control, when information eventually leaks out to prove otherwise. Eg. a leaked document indicated that 2,000 men in Cologne, Germany allegedly assaulted 1,200 German women on New Year’s Eve, and the shocking report of the massive cover-up of Muslim rape gang activity in the UK. Another article exclaims: Excuses, Excuses: Planetwide Cover-up on Islamic Violence.
The public is being kept in the dark at the expense of its own safety because of political correctness, driven by the fear of so-called “Islamophobic” or racist sentiments.
The arrests came five days before the opening of the famed Christmas market in Strasbourg, which attracts tourists from across Europe and was the target of a failed extremist plot in 2000.

“France: 7 Arrested in Anti-Terror Raids, Attack Thwarted,” ABC News, November 21, 2016:
French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille, the interior minister announced Monday, saying authorities thwarted a new potential attack.
The raids were linked to a series of arrests in June during the European Championship soccer tournament that was held in cities across France, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
The arrests Sunday in Strasbourg and Marseille “allowed us to thwart a terrorist act that had been envisaged for a long time on our soil,” Cazeneuve told reporters in Paris. Investigators are studying whether it was part of a larger plot to attack multiple sites simultaneously.
Cazeneuve didn’t identify the target of the planned attack. The arrests came five days before the opening of the famed Christmas market in Strasbourg, which attracts tourists from across Europe and was the target of a failed extremist plot in 2000….
The raids in Strasbourg reportedly took place in the Neuhof and Meinau neighborhoods, where authorities dismantled a jihadi network in 2014 that included the brother of an Islamic State bomber who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last year.
French police have detained 418 people this year in terrorism investigations following deadly Islamic State attacks, Cazeneuve said.
Angemon says
It’s good that they prevented this attack, but they can’t prevent them all. That much has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.
Allan says
ABC ought to stand for Artfully Bowlderized Coverage. A little courage and honesty on their part would have produced a piece which reads more like this:
France: 7 Muslims Arrested in Anti-Terror Raids, Attack Thwarted
Likewise…French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven Islamists in Strasbourg…
And…French police have detained 418 people, almost all of who are Muslims,…
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
One doesn’t need to spend very long at Jihadwatch before one finds oneself mentally rewriting large chunks of certain types of news stories, exactly as you have just done.
David says
Only 7 arrested?
That’s nothing! Small potatoes!
Now if you had 700 arrested, THAT WOULD at least be a start!
Wake me when the REAL anti-terrorist sweeps begin! I’ll bring popcorn!
John Barry says
Many un-noticed small add up David. There were a few “small potatoe” attacks in the USA before
9/11 where there not. 911 only had a small number of attackers . Probably will not see a large number of attackers each time. God bless David.
Mockingjay says
– It was mentioned (a bit later in the news cycle) that indeed the Christmas market AND a police station would have been the targets…
BTW – it was ALSO mentioned that these seven were all RETURNED jihadis.
– WHAT? –
Yes: returned jihadis.
– Now with all the Christmas markets happening, especially in Germany, and with all the “returned jihadis” freely running around in Europe, I’d say it is a bit premature to feel any relief…
Mockingjay says
Oh – and something else I forgot to mention:
None of the arrested were on any terror list.
Er – What ???
Stan Lee says
Hopefully, the French security authorities have learned that they must operate covertly and strike before Islam strikes.
The murderer of the priest in Normandy, while he was holding Mass was able to flee France with his wife and child. He is now operating against the west from the relative security for him in a Muslim country.
The French justice system has been reacting to slowly to be effective. Perhaps it has now reassessed its operations….hopefully.
Michael Johnson says
This ought to wake France up get these moon god worshiping desert rats out of the country if they want to kill let them go back to Arabia and do it don’t bring that crap here to the West
American! says
Good for the French!!!!!
dumbledoresarmy says
A story that appears in Australia’s ABC indicates that the jihadis were caught by, so to speak, “laying the bait”.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-22/france-arrests-seven-people-suspected-of-planning-attack/8044532
“Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the seven people (sic: seven MUSLIMS – dda) of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin were taken into custody on Sunday, following an eight-month operation that ended with the DGSI internal intelligence agency laying a trap…
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“The source said the plotters were caught after intelligence services leaked information to one of their coordinators — most likely in Syria — that there was a weapons cache in the Paris region.
“After several months of surveillance the suspects finally approached the cache, the source said.” END QUOTE
And then the French sprang the trap. Teehee. Muslims may constantly accuse us kuffar of being evil schemers, but in reality (and goodness knows, they’ve had enough cause given to think it, at least recently) I’d say they know they are talking BS, and that we are generally incurably honest, naive and gullible… . until, like these seven would-be jihadists sneaking up to the bait of a proffereed arms cache, they discover with a dreadful shock that some of us are NOT.
Now, having shared that deliciously amusing piece of information about how the French neatly ensnared a bunch of jihadists, I have to say that I would rather NOT know about it. I wish the French authorities had kept that bit of it dark. We don’t need to know *exactly* how it was done. We’re in a war, and we shouldn’t be letting the Enemy know about all our best tricks, by broadcasting successful tricks – like this one – all over the landscape.