PARIS (Reuters) – A man was arrested on Friday at the Iranian consulate in Paris, the police headquarters said, after a police operation was launched after the report of a man carrying a grenade and a vest. explosives.
“The man was arrested. He did not have any explosives on him,” a police source told Reuters.
The individual left the building and is being checked by the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) which had been mobilized, the police headquarters said.
Earlier, she said a man was seen around 11 a.m. at the Iranian consulate carrying a grenade and an explosive vest.
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A large police force was deployed near the Iranian consulate, noted a Reuters journalist present on site.
(Report by Juliette Jabkhiro, Alain Acco and Benoit Tessier, written by Blandine Hénault, edited by Zhifan Liu)
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