ISIS bomb plot foiled in France as police arrest man ‘with explosives’

The man, who had pledged allegiance to the terror group in a video was arrested near the southern city of Nimes on Tuesday.

A source close to the investigation said: “This is the first attack foiled this year.”

Bomb-making materials were reportedly discovered at his house, however, there was no initial indication of what his intentions were or possible target.

Police raiding the man’s house found a tube filled with powder which allegedly could be used as an explosive, as well as various other powders and a device to start a fire, the source said.

The man was also charged with “associating with terrorist criminals” and placed in custody.

The source said: “The investigation started when police saw on social media and attempt by a man in the Nimes region with Islamist leanings trying to procure a weapon.”

During the raid, several videos were also seized.

Taken last year, in one of the videos, the man pledges allegiance to self-proclaimed leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with the terror group’s vile flag in the background.

It comes after ISIS boasted responsibility for two vile attacks in France last year.

On April 20 a policeman was shot on Paris’ Champs Elysees and on October 1, two people were killed in an attack in Marseilles’s railway station.

France has suffered at least seven radical Islamist attacks since January 2015.

The deadliest was a coordinated suicide bomb and shooting assault by an Islamic State cell on November 13, 2015, which killed 130 people in the French capital.