The suspected Islamist militants targeted in a Paris police raid early Wednesday were a terror unit capable of planning a new attack, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said. "A new team of terrorists was neutralized and all indications are that given their arms, their organizational structure and their determination, the commando could have struck," Molins said. He confirmed the raid was called after phone taps and surveillance information led authorities to believe Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind the Paris attacks, might have been in the apartment in Saint-Denis. The raid took place about 2 km from the soccer stadium that was one of the sites attacked last week. ◆ Not in...
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