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Six Arrested In France Over Plot To Attack President Macron

Six people have been arrested in France on suspicion of planning to carry out a “violent” attack on President Emmanuel Macron, officials say.

The individuals, reported to be five men and a woman, were picked up by the French security services in Brittany, north-east and south-east France.

An investigation is now taking place into a “criminal terrorist association”, a judicial source said. Details of the suspects and the alleged plot have not yet been released. “This investigation is looking into a plot, vague and ill-defined at this stage, involving violent action against the president of the republic,” prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The suspects had reportedly been under surveillance by France’s domestic security agency, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI).

The arrests were carried out in the eastern French regions of Moselle and Isere and the northern region of Ile-et-Vilaine, officials said. It comes on the day that Mr Macron is touring the battlefields of northern France as he marks the centenary of the World War One Armistice.

Last year, a 23-year-old man was charged with plotting to kill Mr Macron at the Bastille Day parade on 14 July after police were alerted by users of a videogame chat room.

Violent Crime In London Could Take Years To Tackle

It could take a generation to solve London’s violent crime problem, the city’s mayor has warned.

Two teenage boys and two men have been stabbed to death in the city in the last five days, including 15-year-old Jay Hughes.

Mayor Sadiq Khan said to “really make significant progress can take up to 10 years”. Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said combating violence crime “isn’t just about police numbers”.

There have been 118 homicides in the capital this year, including 73 stabbings and 12 shootings, compared to 116 this time last year. Jay Hughes, 15, was stabbed to death in a chicken shop on Thursday and Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, was killed outside a Tube station on Friday.

Met Police commander Stuart Cundy said there were “hundreds of additional duty officers on the streets”.

In September, a London Violence Reduction Unit was set up mirroring the approach taken in Glasgow, where violence is treated as a public health issue and “a disease infecting communities”. According to City Hall figures police coverage in London is at its lowest rate in 20 years with 3.3 police officers for every thousand Londoners – the lowest rate since 1998 and 19% below 2010.

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Fight At Sony Headquarters Leaves Two Men With Stab Wounds

Two men were stabbed during a fight between kitchen workers at Sony Music’s headquarters in central London.

Firearms officers and paramedics were called to the building in Derry Street, Kensington at about 11:00 GMT.

One member of Sony staff said the catering workers had been “running around chasing each other.” Both were later arrested by police. The Met said there was no evidence of any firearms involved and it was not being treated as terror related.

In a statement, Sony said two members of the catering team had been “involved in a violent altercation” and it was being investigated by police. The member of staff, who did not want to be named, said they had heard “screaming and running and people slamming doors”.

They added the two kitchen workers were “slashing each other up”.

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National Crime Agency Report On Organised Crime Threat

The threat posed by organised crime in the UK is now greater than terrorism, the National Crime Agency has said.

Its latest report said there were 4,600 serious and organised crime groups, committing offences including child abuse, trafficking and drug dealing.

Director general Lynne Owens said that crime cost the economy £37bn a year.

Security Minister Ben Wallace said he wanted to target groups – such as accountants and estate agents – who launder money for the criminals.

He said that those at the “bottom of the pyramid”, who were dealing drugs or laundering money for crime bosses – who he referred to as “foot soldiers” of organised crime – needed to face “the same weight of the law” as those at the top.

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