French officials said Friday they had foiled a terror attack by a suspect who had been convicted in Belgium alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the November 13 terror attacks in Paris.

French officials said Friday they had foiled a terror attack by a suspect who had been convicted in Belgium alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the November 13 terror attacks in Paris.

French national Reda Kriket, 34, was arrested Thursday in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb west of Paris.

A police raid on his home in nearby Argenteuil turned up several assault rifles including Kalashnikovs and TATP -- the easy-to-make explosive of choice of ISIL terrorist group.

Cazeneuve said the arrest "foiled a planned attack in France, which was at an advanced stage."

Some of the TATP was ready to use, while police also found its ingredients, acetone and oxygenated water.

Police sources said Kriket had been found guilty in absentia in Brussels last July of being part of a network recruiting terrorists to Syria and sentenced to 10 years' jail.

Investigations showed Kriket played a key role in financing the network with money from robberies and stolen goods.

Among those who went to Syria through the network were Abaaoud and another Paris attacker, Chakib Akrouh.

Abaaoud was among 28 convicted in the Belgian trial and was sentenced to 20 years in absentia.