Members of a suspected Isis terror cell arrested last weekend in France planned to launch attacks on 1 December at Disneyland Paris and the Champs Elysees Christmas market.

Seven suspected jihadis of French, Moroccan and Afghan nationalities were arrested in Strasbourg and Marseille in a series of coordinated raids on Saturday night. Two were later released.

Bernard Cazeneuve told a news conference French counter-terror officers had been monitoring the cell for more than eight months.

They also planned to target France's counter-intelligence services hub, the police crime-investigation headquarters and the nearby high court building, a source close to the inquiry told Reuters.

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The targets and the date of the planned assault were taken from information found on a smartphone, police sources said.

Security sources confirmed some of the suspects had fought in Syria and were linked to the Isis cell which carried out the Paris attacks in November 2015, which left 130 people dead.

The group’s “nervousness” as they awaited a weapons delivery reportedly sparked their arrests as the risk to public safety increased.

Two handguns, an automatic pistol, a machine pistol and jihadist propaganda were all found during the raids.

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A total of 418 people have been arrested in France for suspected links to terror networks since the start of the year, including 43 people this month alone.

The country remains in a state of emergency a year after Isis-linked attackers launched a coordinated assault on Paris, and some months after a lone terrorist ploughed a lorry into crowds in Nice celebrating Bastille Day in July.

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