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FILE - In this Saturday, May 12, 2018 file photo, the Paris prosecutor Francois Molins delivers a speech in central Paris. Molins says about 40 convicted terrorists are due to be released from French prisons this year and next, calling the entry back into society of the unrepentant ones a “major risk.” Molins said on BFM television Monday, May 28, 2018 that France still faces a significant threat from homegrown supporters of the struggling Islamic State group. Molins estimated that 600 to 700 French extremists are unaccounted for in Iraq and Syria, though many have probably been killed. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

French prosecutor: 40 terrorism convicts to be released soon

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CORRECTS THE FIRST NAME TO KHAMZAT This undated photo made available to the Associated Press on the condition that its source not be revealed, shows Khamzat Azimov. The man behind a deadly knife attack in central Paris was born in Chechnya and had been on police radar for radicalism, and his parents have been detained for questioning, French authorities said Sunday, May 13, 2018. (AP Photo)

Friend of French knife attacker may face charges in rampage

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

French Police officers and emergency service members work at a supermarket during an incident in Trebes, southern France, Friday March 23, 2018. French counterterrorism prosecutors are taking charge of the investigation after a man went on a rampage, carjacking a vehicle, killing three people including a police officer and taking hostages at a supermarket, before being shot to death by police. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Extremist slain, 3 dead after rampage in southern France

By THOMAS ADAMSON and SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo taken on June 6 2017, hooded police officers sit in a police car after a man attacked police officers patrolling in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris. Ten people suspected of using encrypted social networks to prepare a possible attack were arrested Tuesday in counterterrorism operations in France and Switzerland, according to French officials. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

France still hunting for suspects in 2015 Paris attacks

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2 suspects in France face terror charges over explosives lab

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Man arrested in French car attack had radical beliefs

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Scientific police officers investigate on the suspected car, center rear, after a man rammed into a police convoy on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, Monday, June 19, 2017. France's interior minister says the attempted attack on security forces on the Champs-Elysees shows the threat is still very high in the country and justifies the state of emergency. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Prosecutor: Paris attacker asked family to see him as martyr

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Soldiers patrol at Orly airport, south of Paris, Saturday, March, 18, 2017. Soldiers at Paris' busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Tests find drugs, alcohol in blood of Paris airport attacker

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Police officers guard the road leading to a plant where an attack took place in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France, Friday, June 26, 2015. A man with suspected ties to French Islamic radicals rammed a car Friday into an American gas factory in southeastern France, triggering an explosion which caused injuries, officials said. The severed head of a local businessman was left hanging at the factory's entrance, along with banners with Arabic inscriptions, they said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Beheading at French gas plant attack is Islamic State trademark, prosecutor says

By Philippe Sotto - Associated Press

FILE - In this hand out file photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. The Paris prosecutor's office said a man has been arrested Friday May 30, 2014 in the investigation of the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police, File)

Suspect in Jewish museum killings went to Syria

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Elite police officers and riot police (left) guard on Wednesday a parking lot in Torcy, east of Paris, where police found bomb-making material after police broke up a suspected terrorist cell last week. Potassium and sulfur were recovered. (Associated Press)

Terror cell planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

French Prosecutor Francois Molins, during a news conference in Paris on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, describes the discovery of bomb-making materials believed to belong to a suspected terrorist cell. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Prosecutor: French terror cell planned Syria trip

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

French Prosecutor Francois Molins, during a news conference in Paris on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, describes the discovery of bomb-making materials believed to belong to a suspected terrorist cell. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French police find bomb material during terror probe

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Mohamed Merah

French official: Islamists planned to kidnap judge

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Mohamed Merah

13 members of French Islamist group calling for jihad face charges

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

French President Nicolas Sarkozy pays respect during a ceremony Wednesday for three slain paratroopers. Authorities think they were killed by the gunman also thought to be responsible for the deaths of three Jewish children and a rabbi. A 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent is the chief suspect in the seven slayings.

Suspect in 7 killings in Franceholed up in police standoff

By Johanna Decorse and Sarah DiLorenzo - Associated Press