PARIS: French police have arrested a man accused of threatening to attack police at Mont Saint Michel, causing a scare that led to the evacuation of one of the country’s busiest tourist sites, a security source said Monday. A senior local official said the man then got into a fight with a cafe owner, during which he made more threats against security forces. The source said a suspect in the case, a 36-year-old man, was arrested late on Sunday on a motorway near the Normandy city of Caen. Tourists were blocked from entering the island during the lockdown as around 50 police conducted a house-to-house search. Mont Saint Michel, a place of pilgrimage in medieval times, lies about a kilometre (half a mile) offshore and is attached to the mainland by a bridge.

Source: New Strait Times April 23, 2018 07:18 UTC