French police conducted a counter-terrorism operation in the Argenteuil area north of Paris Thursday near a mosque and an Islamic library, authorities said.
It is not yet known whether the operation had any links to last week’s truck attack in Nice.
Meanwhile, France’s interior minister said that there were no national police stationed at the entrance to the walkway in Nice when the Bastille Day truck attack took place.
Bernard Cazeneuve’s acknowledgement Thursday came as a newspaper accused French authorities of a lack of transparency for their handling of the massacre.
Cazeneuve initially had said that “national police were present and very present …read more
Source: Voice of America
