France’s interior minister said on Tuesday police had arrested a number of people after the discovery of an explosive device outside a residential building in Paris last weekend. One of those arrested was “radicalized”, he said, a likely reference to Islamist militancy. Minister Gerard Collomb, speaking on public radio station France Inter, said the discovery of the device in the affluent 16th district of western Paris highlighted that France was as much as ever at risk of terrorist attacks. The Islamic State militant group whose bases in Syria and Iraq are being bombed by French war planes has urged followers to attack France. A judicial source said the explosive device found late last Friday night was made of four gas cannisters.

Source: Egypt Independent October 03, 2017 11:48 UTC