Reda Kriket, 34, detained near Paris amid a spate of police raids after last week’s bloodshed in Brussels, has been charged with terrorism offences over an alleged plot to target France.<br /><br /> The Paris Prosecutor said the arsenal of weapons found at an apartment outside the French capital suggested an attack was imminent.<br /><br /> Detailing the grisly haul including chemicals that could be used for a bomb, Prosecutor Francois Mollins told reporters that there was about 1.3 kg of industrial explosives, 5 Kalashnikov assault rifles and their magazines, a submachine gun of Croatian origin, seven handguns, a tear gas canister and a large amount of munitions as well as a book entitled “The Modern Laboratory.”<br /><br /> While this probe is distinct from the investigation into the Brussels attacks or November’s carnage in Paris, security forces across Europe are seeking to unravel a spider’s web of terror believed to be linked to so-called Islamic State which claimed both big mass atrocities.<br /><br /> Further raids h
