This Sunday morning, 29 August, the incident in Paris could have turned tragic. In the 19th arrondissement, Le Parisien reports, a 28-year-old man was stopped by the police as he tried to enter the Saint-Luc church in the Rue de l’Ourcq. At the time of his arrest, the man was carrying a .44 calibre revolver loaded with two cartridges. Although his intentions are not yet clear, it seems clear that a disaster was narrowly averted. This was prevented thanks to the vigilance of the parish priest of Saint-Luc. On Sunday morning at around 10 am, the churchman spotted the person in question while preparing for the service. Nervously, he asked the priest for the time of the day’s mass and told the priest that he wanted to come back to attend the service. In view of the suspicious behaviour of his counterpart, the priest became wary. And rightly so: during the conversation he has time to spot the stock of a pistol sticking out of the young man’s pocket.As soon as his counterpart had left, the priest called the police and gave the description of the thirty-year-old. The teams of the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) of the 19th arrondissement of Paris then sounded the alarm and positioned a large surveillance team around the Saint Jules church – and also near the parish of Sainte-Claire d’Assise, according to Le Parisien. Fortunately, the operation was successful: shortly after 11am, when the Saint-Luc mass had started twenty minutes earlier, the suspect was spotted walking towards the church a few hundred metres away. He was immediately arrested and has since been in police custody in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The 2nd Department of the Paris Criminal Investigation Department was in charge of the investigation.
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