The families of French victims of Hamas terror attacks in Israel are to ask judicial authorities to quiz Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat while he is in Paris.

A previously unknown terror group is threatening to blow up French railway tracks unless it is paid millions of euro.

French police have found suspected detonator parts in a flat used by four alleged Islamic militants who it is feared were planning an attack.

THREE alleged Islamic radicals arrested by French counterintelligence agents had possession of unidentified chemicals they were planning to use in an attack, according to judicial officials and media reports yesterday.

Three suspects arrested during a roundup of people with possible links to alleged shoe bomber Richard C Reid were placed under investigation today by a French anti-terrorism judge, judicial officials said.