French police arrested a neo-nazi musician with links to Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik for allegedly plotting a “major terrorist act”, after his wife purchased four rifles.

40-year old Kristian Vikernes is a well-known “black metal musician” in his native Norway, which he left after serving the 15-year sentence for the stabbing death of a guitar player in one of his (awful) bands, “Mayhem”.

Vikernes is a sympathizer of Anders Breivik, the white supremacist coward who in 2011 killed 77 young people in a shooting spree at a children’s camp and also by planting a bomb in Oslo.  Breivik sent his “manifesto” to Vikernes in France, which piqued the authorities’ interest.

In a statement, France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls said: 'Having received the manifesto before (Breivik) committed his crimes and having been sentenced in Norway in the past for murder, this individual, who was close to a neo-Nazi movement, was likely to prepare a large terrorist act.'

Officers were searching his home in the central French town of Correze for more weapons and explosives.