The report came as French police thwarted an “imminent” suicide attack, possibly on a Paris tourist site, with the arrests of four suspected Isil recruits, including a 16-year-old girl, who were manufacturing explosives. The arrests in Montpellier and the nearby town of Marseillan “foiled a plot to carry out an imminent attack on French soil,” Le Roux said in a statement

A police source said the four — who included a 16-year-old girl — were arrested after buying acetone, a highly flammable liquid that can be used to make bombs. The prosecutor's office said that police had infiltrated the property of the 20-year-old and found acetone and 70 grams of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), the same explosive used by Islamic State (Isis/Daesh) in the 2015 Paris attacks.
French police arrest three men and a 16-year-old girl found with bomb-making materials in a Montpellier flat. The female suspect had been spotted online saying she wanted to either leave for the Syria-Iraq conflict or mount an attack in France, and recorded a video in which she pledged allegiance to ISIL.