2024-04-24 08:17:15
Today, Friday, April 19, the french police arrest still man what tried to entrench in the embassy of Iran with apparent explosives.
Before the international tensions due to attacks between Israel and Iran, European countries and the rest of the world are alert.
The Paris police were alerted to the presence of a person with explosive material that was in said embassy.
They manage to arrest a man who tried to barricade himself in the Iranian embassy with explosives in Paris
The man in question was seen around 11:00 a.m. (local time) entering the consulate, carrying what appeared to be a granada and a explosive vest.
Upon arriving at the place Police cordoned off the area as a preventive measure.. According to the Reuters news agency, The man left the consulate and was later arrested.
Now this man, once he left the Iranian embassy without causing any incident, is interrogated by the police of the capital of France.
“A witness saw a man entering with a grenade or an explosive belt,” said a local police source.
The source added that the head of Paris PoliceLaurent Nuñez, mobilized an elite unit, and specified that the consulate made the request for intervention.
The neighborhood where the Iranian consulate is located, in the XVI district, in the west of the French capital, It is completely closed to traffic y A large police force was deployed at the scene..
Equally Traffic was interrupted on metro lines 6 and 9, which pass through the Trocadero station, the closest to the Iranian consulate.according to the RATP transport company.
Explosives belonging to the man who tried to barricade himself in the Iranian embassy were fake
In other reports, the French television channel BFM stated that The man who tried to barricade himself in the Iranian embassy carried replica grenades.
A police source said that it was the same man suspected of trying to set a fire near the Iranian consulate in an incident last September.
The newspaper Le Parisien reported on its website that, according to several witnesses, the man had dragged flags across the consulate floor and said he wanted to avenge his brother’s death.
It was unclear whether the incident had any link to current tensions between Iran and Israel..
The US embassy in Paris asked Americans to avoid the areafollowing similar recommendations from the French police.
2024-04-24 08:17:15