French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb. Photo / Getty Images
French authorities have thwarted a possible attack using ricin or explosives and arrested two brothers, the interior minister said Friday.
Gerard Collomb told BFM television that authorities were tracking extremist activity on social networks and identified two young men "preparing to commit an attack with explosives or ricin."
He said
the young men were of Egyptian origin but didn't indicate their nationality or provide other details about where or when they were arrested.
He said the men notably had tutorials on how to make poison using ricin.
Collomb said the brothers had been communicating on encrypted messaging app Telegram.
