A police car. (drawing). – DENIS CHARLET / AFP
A building in the 18th arrondissement of Paris was partially evacuated on Thursday after the discovery of a “suspicious device” in an apartment, learns 20 minutes from sources close to the case. A security perimeter has been set up. The central laboratory of the police headquarters intervened in this accommodation on rue Eugène Sue but any risk of explosion has been ruled out, assures a police source.
This discovery follows the intervention of a bailiff who had been mandated to note the subletting of the apartment without the owner’s consent. According to our information, he was intrigued by the presence of a bucket filled with a liquid connected to electric wires and alerted the police. Two floors of the building were evacuated. A sub-tenant of the building is the subject of an S sheet, indicates a police source.