A 36-year-old man was arrested and placed in police custody after he was filmed dropping off a suitcase and abandoning it at Saint-Lazare station, report our colleagues from Le Parisien.
On March 20, an abandoned suitcase was discovered in this station. The Vigipirate plan is then applied and the deminers intervene to open the luggage. While this is often an oversight on the part of travelers, the contents of the suitcase found that day are intriguing.
According to our colleagues, are found in the suitcase “several telephones, knives as well as numerous handwritten documents, some of which advocate the Palestinian cause“, writes the newspaper, before indicating that there were, in the telephones, “Islamic warrior songs» and “attack threat messages“. “We have to blow it all up before the Olympic Games», It is notably written in another.
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According to The Parisian, The use of video surveillance data from Saint-Lazare station allowed investigators to see the suspect, a 38-year-old Algerian.close to radical Islamists», drop off the suitcase in the station grounds, then leave. Enough to rule out the possibility of an involuntary oversight.
If the man denies having left the luggage to the police, the threat is considered serious enough for an investigation to be opened and a man to be arrested and then placed in police custody, confirms BFM TV. The suspect was then indicted on April 12 and then placed in pre-trial detention.
Our colleagues further explain that at the end of his custody, a judicial investigation was opened on the counts of “threat of crime”, “transport of category D weapon”, and “criminal association with a view to committing a crime”. She was entrusted to the anti-terrorist section (SAT) of the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police.
At the end of March, France returned to “emergency attack” alert, the highest level of Vigipirate, after the attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, claimed by the Islamic State.
