Terror plots targeting Paris Olympics have been foiled by French intelligence agents

TERROR plots targeting the Paris Olympics have been foiled by French intelligence agents.

They have been linked to an Afghanistan-based off-shoot of IS.

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French intelligence agents have foiled terror plots targeting the Paris Olympics[/caption]

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The French capital will host millions of visitors when the Games begin on July 26[/caption]

The Games are due to open on July 26 and millions of visitors, including many from Britain, are expected to flood into the French capital. 

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said “several arrests”  had been made in connection with at least two separate cases. He added: “They are being handed over to the justice authorities.”

It comes as France  braced itself  for the results of today’s   parliamentary election — with tensions  high as the far-right National Rally led opinion polls.

An investigating source said the  plot was foiled by the General Directorate of Internal Security, saying  it was working  “night and day to ensure the safety of Olympics spectators”.

The source added  those arrested are believed to be connected to  Afghan organisation Khorasan, which has ties to IS.

The Islamic extremist group was blamed for the  suicide bomb attack on the Stade de France,  focal point of this year’s Olympics, in November  2015.

One man was killed, and 63 others injured, before more atrocities were committed around Paris. 

Another Khorasan suspect, an 18-year-old Chechen asylum seeker,    was arrested in May.

He was suspected of plotting  an attack on the stadium of top French football team Saint-Etienne, in eastern France. 

The investigation  “opened up links with other suspects,”  the investigation source  says. 

The suspect has  since been indicted on a range of terror-related charges.