Two individuals, a Frenchman and a Libyan, were arrested this morning as they were about to attempt an attack at Paris’ Montparnasse railway station, sources close to the incident told ‘Le Figaro’ newspaper.
Both individuals were arrested at around 07.45 this morning, after bursting into the station in possession of nine gas cylinders while shouting “let’s blow it all up”, according to these sources.
The two suspects, identified respectively as “Éric”, a 51-year-old Frenchman, and “Abdelwahed”, a 29-year-old Libyan, are already in police custody on charges of making “apology of terrorism”.
Police discovered in one of the bags they were carrying the nine cylinders, all filled with gas but ultimately “harmless” because “it was clear that neither of the two had any idea how to blow them up.”
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has in any case asked the Prefect of Police of Paris, Laurent Nunez, to give orders to immediately reinforce security at all stations in the French capital.