Paris

Police in France have arrested a suspected militant linked to a terrorist cell that was planning a new ‘high level’ attack on French soil, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve reported. The minister said that security services managed to “foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage” Security forces locked down the area during a major raid in Argenteuil near to Paris. The Guardian reports: Police carried out raids in the Argenteuil suburb of Paris following the arrest of the man at 5.30pm on Thursday who was believed to be planning a terrorist attack.

European authorities are scrambling to avert further terrorist attacks across the bloc in the wake of Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels that killed nearly three dozen people and wounded hundreds more.

14 months after the January 2015 raid in Verviers that left two men with links to Paris mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud dead, Belgian authorities are apparently still no closer to dismantling the ISIS cell responsible for the attacks in France and the bombings that unfolded in the Brussels airport and metro earlier this week.

The Associated Press reports:

The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum chaos, officials have told The Associated Press.

The network of agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq.

A 19-year-old Mormon missionary from the US was injured in the Brussels terror attacks had, according to the Daily Mail, unbelievably survived both the Boston bombing and the Paris terror attacks of 2015: ISIS has claimed responsibility for the double blasts, which left at least 34 people dead including three of the terrorists and nearly 200 people injured.   The State Department said Wednesday that at least 12 Americans have been injured in the attacks, including Mormon missionary Mason Wells, 19, his two colleagues, a U.S.

Just days after the manhunt for Salah Abdeslam ended with the Paris fugitive’s capture in the Muslim enclave of Molenbeek, another frantic search is underway in Belgium.

This time police are looking for an as yet unidentified man wearing a white collared shirt and dark bucket hat who was captured on camera pushing a luggage trolley through the Brussels airport today alongside the two men who are suspected of having blown themselves up as part of the coordinated terrorist attacks that rocked the city on Tuesday morning.