Man arrested for French 'church attacks'

A man allegedly planning an attack on churches was arrested in Paris and is also suspected of having killed a woman near the French capital.

France's interior minister says the man was arrested on Sunday and was known to intelligence services for wanting to go to Syria to fight with jihadists.

He owned "an arsenal of several war weapons," Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters.

It is unclear what the alleged link with the murdered woman was.