Brothers held in French terror investigation

Police have arrested two brothers suspected of planning a terrorist attack in France.

The French interior minister Brice Hortefeux said that the two French citizens were suspected of “criminal association with a terrorist enterprise” and were being questioned today.

He spoke on France-2 television, which said the two were arrested in a Paris suburb yesterday.

Hortefeux gave no other details.

He spoke amid heightened fears around Europe about terrorism threats. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was among leaders targeted by mail bombs discovered in Greece this week.