6 arrested in suspected plot to attack French leader Macron
PARIS — French security agents arrested six people Tuesday on suspicion of plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a French judicial official.
Prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation of alleged criminal terrorist association, the judicial official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the allegations, said intelligence agents detained the six suspects in three scattered regions: one in the Alps, another in Brittany and four near the Belgian border in Moselle.
The plan to target the French president appeared to be vague and unfinished, but violent, the official said.