Paris police arrest two linked to suspicious car
Police in France have made two arrests in relation to a suspicious car found near the highly-popular Notre Dame cathedral in the capital Paris.
Sources said Wednesday that the owner of the Peugeot 607, which had a gas cylinder on the back seat and had been abandoned near the cathedral at the weekend, was arrested a day earlier.
The sources said another person, who is known to the French security services like the owner of the car, was also taken into police custody. They said anti-terror investigators have launched an official probe into the case.
The car, which had no number plates and had its hazard lights flashing, was noticed on September 4 by a bar employee working near Notre Dame, a police source said, adding that a total of six cylinders were found in the car with the one in the backseat empty but the others in the trunk completely full.
Police said there were no detonators and that the car was parked in a side street opposite the cathedral on the left bank of the Seine.
France remains on high alert since January last year. Terrorist attacks, mostly claimed by Takfiri terrorists based in the Middle East, have rattled the country ever since. Dozens of people were killed on a night in Paris in November 2015, while 86 people were killed two months ago when a truck rammed into a crowd in a southern resort in Nice.
French intelligence services warned recently that terrorists might use new tactics by leaving explosive devices near sites that attract large crowds, especially those visited by foreign tourists. They said the “new form of attack” could trigger huge casualties while the perpetrator could escape unharmed.
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