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An extreme Right-wing terror suspect was in custody in Paris today after allegedly planning to assassinate French President Emmanuel Macron in front of Donald Trump.

The Day of the Jackal-style plot by the unnamed 23-year-old Frenchman was foiled when he tried to get a Kalashnikov assault rifle online.

Prosecuting sources in the French capital said the man was from the ‘extreme-Right’ and wanted to murder Mr Macron, as well as ‘blacks, Arabs, Jews and homosexuals’.

He was indicted with terrorism offences last Saturday, with details of the case released today.

The suspect, who comes from the Paris area, planned to target Mr Macron as he took the salute at the Bastille Day celebrations on July 14th.

President Trump will be this year’s guest of honour on France’s national day, which recalls the storming of the Bastille fortress during the French Revolution of 1789.

One of the biggest security operations in French history will unfold on the Champs Elysee and the Place de la Concorde for the event, which will involve thousands of French and American troops.

The would-be attacker mentioned his search for a weapon on a video games forum that was being monitored by intelligence officers.

When anti-terrorism police turned up at his flat in the suburb of Argenteuil last Wednesday, he threatened them with a kitchen knife.

He was overpowered and placed in custody, while searches of his car found further weapons.

What is The Day of the Jackal? Frederick Forsyth’s novel “The Day of the Jackal” was about a professional assassin contracted by far-Right terrorist group the Secret Army Organisation (OAS) to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. It received critical acclaim when first published in 1971, and was turned into a hit film staring Edward Fox as the assassin and Michel Lonsdale as the detective who foils him, earning a 1974 Academy Award nomination. Political terrorist Carlos the Jackal was so named after a copy of Forsyth’s book was discovered near some of his belongings. The OAS did exist, campaigning against the loss of the French colony of Algeria in the early 1960s - and did make an attempt on de Gaulle’s life - but the rest of the plot is fiction. Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, and Sidney Poitier later starred in a remake, “The Jackal”, hailed by one critic as “1997’s most tedious movie”.

Prosecuting sources told the RMC radio station that the man was ‘psychologically disturbed but determined’.

His profile was said to resemble that of Maxime Brunerie, who fired at President Jacques Chirac during the Bastille Day parade in 2002.

Brunerie was a neo-Nazi who was sentenced to ten years in prison before being released in 2009.

President Macron, who became president in May aged only 39, has already received a number of death threats, including ones contained in menacing letters and emails.