Two men try to attack a Paris station with nine gas cylinders: “We are going to blow everything up”

Two men try to attack a Paris station with nine gas cylinders: “We are going to blow everything up”

Two men try to attack a Paris station with nine gas cylinders: “We are going to blow everything up”



Two individuals have been arrested this Friday morning when they were about to attempt a attack on the Montparnasse railway stationin Paris, as reported by sources close to the incident to the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’.

Both individuals were arrested at around 07:45 this morning, after breaking into the station in possession of nine gas cylinders to the cry of “let’s blow it all up”according to these sources.

The two suspects, identified respectively as Eric, a 51-year-old French citizen, and Abdelwahed, a 29-year-old Libyan, are already in police custody accused of apology of terrorism.

The Police discovered in one of the bags that they carried the nine cylinders, all full of gas but ultimately “harmless” because “it was clear that neither of them had a clue how to pop them“.

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has nevertheless asked the Prefect of the Paris Police, Laurent Nuñez, to give an order to immediately reinforce the security of all stations from the French capital.

Source: Lasexta

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