French Minister: We thwarted 20 terrorist attacks in 2017.

The French Minister of the Interior, Gerard Collomb, said today that the security forces foiled 20 attacks last year and added that there is no immediate danger on French soil. "20 attacks were foiled in France in 2017. We need to be careful everywhere," the minister said in an interview with the newspaper Progres (Progres), adding that there is currently no immediate danger on French territory. According to the previous official balance announced in November, 13 attacks were thwarted in France. Collomb said seven more attacks have been prevented since then. Islamic State jihadists claimed responsibility for two attacks in 2017. The first was on April 20 on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and the second was on October 1 at a train station in Marseille. Three people were killed in those attacks. After the January 7, 2015 attack on the editorial office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, 241 people were killed in a series of terrorist attacks in France.