French authorities say they thwarted a jihadi attack last week in an area near the central French city Orleans.<br />Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday on a visit near Toulouse that the planned attack targeted "soldiers, police and representatives of the state," and that two French citizens aged 20 and 24 were arrested on Dec. 19.<br />Cazeneuve said that the two were in contact with a French jihadi in Syria and that an investigation is going to establish the exact links between the thwarted attack and the jihadi.<br />Cazeneuve said this brings the total number of foiled attacks in France to 10 since 2013.
