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		</div><p>French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille and thwarted what the interior minister called a new potential attack.</p>
<p>Bernard Cazeneuve said six of the suspects arrested had not been known to intelligence services.</p>
<p>Mr Cazeneuve said that Sunday&#8217;s arrests prevented &#8220;a terrorist act that had been envisaged for a long time&#8221;.</p>
<p>The interior minister did not identify the target of the planned attack.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Mr Cazeneuve said 43 people have been arrested in November alone as part of anti-terror operations following deadly Islamic State attacks on France over the past two years.</p>
<p>The raids were linked to a series of arrests in June during the European Championship football tournament that was held in cities across France, Mr Cazeneuve said.</p>
<p>Investigators are studying whether it was part of a larger plot to attack multiple sites simultaneously.</p>
<p>The suspects are French, Moroccan and Afghan, and are aged between 29 and 37. Mr Cazeneuve said six of them had not been known to intelligence services and one was a Moroccan who had been flagged to France by a foreign government.</p>
<p>The raids in Strasbourg reportedly took place in the Neuhof and Meinau neighbourhoods, where authorities dismantled a jihadi network in 2014 that included the brother of an IS bomber who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last year.</p>
<p>French police have detained 418 people this year in terrorism investigations following deadly IS attacks, Mr Cazeneuve said.</p>
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