LE FIGARO INFO – A Frenchman and a Libyan were arrested this Friday morning in possession of nine gas bottles and placed in police custody for “apology for terrorism”.
Two suspects suspected ofapology for terrorism“Were arrested this Friday, December 30 with nine gas bottles in Montparnasse in Paris, revealed an informed source to the Figaro. According to our information, Éric, a 51-year-old Frenchman, and Abdelwahed, a 29-year-old Libyan, were intercepted around 7:45 a.m. by the police as they shoutedblow it all up” around them. The defendants were taken to the police station, where they repeated the same threats.
A discreet security inspection was conducted at the station, where deminers from the central laboratory of the police headquarters were dispatched.
Reinforced station security
In their bag, the police discovered the nine gas cylinders, all full but described as “harmless“. Obviously, the two suspects had no firing system. The latter were placed in police custody as part of an open procedure for “apology for terrorism“.
Also according to our information, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, asked the Prefect of Police, Laurent Nuñez, to immediately strengthen the security of all stations.
In September 2016, a commando of Islamist women had been neutralized after trying to blow up a Peugeot 607 loaded with gas cylinders near Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral. The investigation had established that the fanatics, then described as “totally receptive to the deadly ideology of Daesh”, had been piloted from Syria.