An activist taking part in the Gay Pride parade in Paris. A plan to attack gay nightclubs in Paris was among a dozen terror plots thwarted in France since the start of the year, according to Interior Minister Gerard Collomb. "This plan of violent action" targeted "Parisian nightclubs and in particular gay clubs," he told a parliamentary committee examining government proposals for new anti-terror laws. He gave no details of the thwarted plot, but said it was among a host of others that French security forces had managed to prevent over the past eight months. "What Daesh (the Islamic State terror group) wants is to divide the national community and create clashes between French people.

Source: The Local September 13, 2017 09:00 UTC