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The proceedings were eventually shelved. The police custody of the two homeless men who were arrested on Friday at Montparnasse station in Paris with gas cylinders has been lifted, AFP learned on Sunday from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
These two men, a 51-year-old Frenchman and a 29-year-old Libyan, had been taken into custody after the first, an alcoholic, had threatened to blow himself up. Gas cylinders of the camping stove type had been found in their belongings.
The Frenchman had been temporarily transferred to the psychiatric infirmary, then returned to police custody late Saturday afternoon.
The police custody was then lifted and the procedure closed for an insufficiently characterized offense, according to the prosecution.