France foils bomb plot in Cannes

French anti-terrorism police had foiled last month an "imminent" bomb attack in the southern city of Cannes, local media said on Wednesday. According to the news channel BFMTV, police believed that bomb-making material and 900 grams of explosive discovered in a flat owned by the father of the 23-year-old presumed responsible would be used for an explosive device. Arrested in February 11, Ibrahim, a Jihadist who returned home recently from Syria, belonged to Cannes-Torcy cell which was behind the attack on a kosher food shop north of Paris in September 2012. "This case is emblematic of what we have always feared. People went to Syria for the jihad against Bashar al-Assad and returned radicalized, trained and with a terrorist project," a source close to the investigation was quoted as saying. France has been the target of attacks following its military commitment mainly in Afghanistan and in Mali. A major terrorist bomb explosion hit Paris subway in 1995, with eight people killed and 200 others wounded.