France’s domestic intelligence agency, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI), will on high alert. A new intelligence analysis center created for Paris 2024 will act as a hub for information gathered by the French intelligence community and international partners.
The agency said it foiled a terrorist plot when a Chechen man was arrested in Saint-Etienne in May, suspected of planning an attack on the city’s soccer stadium during Paris 2024. The Islamic State Khorasan Province group, the Central Asian offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group, was behind the plot, officials have said.
There have been about 50 terrorist attacks stopped by intelligence services since 2017, according to the DGSI.
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