French police have arrested two people after finding possible bomb making equipment in a raid on a flat south of Paris. <br /><br />Chemicals, gas bottles and other products were recovered.<br /><br />Police acted on a tip-off from a local tradesman who had spotted the equipment when looking into the flat.<br /><br />It’s believed some could have been used to produce TATP – an unstable explosive used by militants in several attacks in western Europe in recent years.<br /><br />Meanwhile in Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested six people suspected of belonging to an Islamist militant cell that is said to have simulated decapitations.<br /><br />One was detained in the north African enclave of Melilla, the rest in Morocco.<br /><br />The arrests mark the first big raids since a double Islamist attack in Catalonia in August that killed 16 people.<br />
