They had gas cylinders but no firing system. And probably not all their minds at the time of the facts… Two homeless men were arrested Friday morning at Montparnasse station in Paris and placed in police custody for “apology for terrorism”, we learned from police sources and from from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
These two men, a 51-year-old Frenchman and a 29-year-old Libyan, were arrested shortly before 8 a.m. when they said they wanted to “blow everything up”, said one of the police sources, confirming information from Figaro.
They were “in possession of nine harmless gas cylinders” and “had no firing system,” another police source told AFP. They were camping stove-type bottles, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The French, who shouted that he was going to blow himself up, was alcoholic at the time of the events, and he is of possibly fragile mental health, according to this source.
Deminers on site
He is unknown to the police, while the other man is only known for offenses against the legislation on foreigners. Deminers from the central laboratory of the Paris police headquarters were dispatched to the scene. The railway network brigade was seized of the investigations.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, asked the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, to strengthen the security of the stations of the capital, indicated the entourage of the minister.