A man threatened to set off an explosion to avenge the death of his brother.
On Friday, April 19, Paris police received a message from eyewitnesses claimed that a man entered the Iranian consulate building “with a grenade or a vest filled with explosives.” Immediately after receiving the alarm, the French capital police cordoned off the Iranian diplomatic mission.
BILD writes about this.
The newspaper Le Parisien reported that an unknown man placed several flags on the floor of the consulate and said that he was going to avenge the death of his brother.
French radio station Europe1 learned that a possible terrorist took the Iranian ambassador hostage and barricaded himself with him in one of the rooms of the consulate. However, there is no official information about the events inside the consulate building yet.
Some French media claim that the man who threatened to blow up the consulate did not have explosives at all.
Subsequently, BFM TV reported that police had detained a man suspected of attacking the consulate. According to journalists, he turned out to be a 60-year-old Frenchman of Iranian origin. It is known that the man suffers from a mental disorder, and ten days ago he set fire to tires in front of the Iranian consulate.
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