Emmanuel Macron's spokesman among targets of far-Right militant plot

French police have seized ten far-Right militants reportedly suspected of plotting to kill politicians and launch attacks on migrants and mosques.

Aged between 17 and 25 and including one woman and two minors, the suspects were arrested in raids in Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris, and near Marseille, southern France.

According to French media, politicians on the suspects' wish list included Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leftist leader, and Christophe Castaner, spokesman of Emmanuel Macron's government.

According to M6, they dropped the idea of attacking Mr Mélenchon after he failed to reach the final round of the presidential elections.

Other potential targets reportedly included migrants, mosques, a flea market in Marseille and an Indian restaurant in Aix-en-Provence.

This is one of the rare alleged far-Right violent plots in France since a failed attempt to assassinate then president Jacques Chirac in 2002.

The suspected ringleader is reportedly Logan Alexandre Nisin, 21, a former activist of Action Française Provence, a far-Right group, who appeared on the French intelligence radar for running a Facebook page glorifying Norwegian white supremacist and mass murderer Anders Brevik.

According to Le Monde, police found a pump-action shotgun and two revolvers, along with a flak jacket, at his mother's home, where he lived. He had made inquiries about acquiring other weapons at gun vendors, and had researched procuring false papers and making a flame thrower.

Several French media outlets said he had actively sought to create a far-Right militia, writing on his Facebook page: "Arabs, blacks, dealers, migrants, jihadist scum, if you too dream of killing them all, we have made it our intention, join us."

He called the cell OAS, after the Secret Army, a far-Right French dissident paramilitary group that carried out terrorist attacks, including bombings and assassinations, in an attempt to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. It also plotted to assassinate then president Charles De Gaulle.

Its state aim, according to Le Monde, citing investigators, was to "spark remigration" from France of foreigners.

Nisin has been placed under investigation for "criminal association in relation to a terrorist group".

Police have 96 hours to question the other suspects before deciding whether to press charges.