5 arrests after explosives found in chic Paris district

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5 arrests after explosives found in chic Paris district
ABC News

Five people are in custody after an apparent failed bombing attempt in a chic Paris neighborhood.

Paris police say a neighbor alerted authorities to suspicious activity early Saturday in the building in the 16th arrondissement, or district. A judicial official said an explosive device was found and deactivated.

Read more at: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/arrests-explosives-found-chic-paris-district-50246005

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Five questioned over 'primed bomb' found in plush Parisian district as France passes tough new anti-terror law
The Telegraph/UK, Oct 3, 2017, Henry Samuel/Paris

French anti-terror investigators are questioning five people over the discovery of a primed bomb at an apartment bloc in one of Paris's plushest districts, amid government warnings that France is "still at war".

The arrests came as four people were seized in Marseille, southern France, in connection with an attack on Sunday in which a knifeman stabbed two 20-year old women to death in the southern port of Marseille. Police also raided buildings as they sought to piece together where he had stayed before the attack.


Read more:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/03/five-questioned-primed-bomb-found-plush-parisian-district-france/