The two homeless men, arrested on Friday after threatening to blow up Montparnasse station with gas cylinders, were released after their custody was lifted. The procedure was closed, said the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The police custody of the two homeless men who were arrested on Friday at Montparnasse station in Paris with gas cylinders has been lifted and the procedure closed, AFP learned on Sunday from the Paris prosecutor’s office. These two men, a 51-year-old Frenchman and a 29-year-old Libyan, had been taken into custody after the first, an alcoholic, had threatened to blow himself up. Gas cylinders of the camping stove type had been found in their belongings.
The Frenchman had been temporarily transferred to the psychiatric infirmary, then returned to police custody on Saturday at the end of the afternoon. The police custody was then lifted and the procedure closed for an insufficiently characterized offense, according to the prosecution.
He screamed that he was going to blow himself up
The French, who shouted that he was going to blow himself up, was alcoholic at the time of the events, and he is of possibly fragile mental health, according to this source. He is unknown to the police, while the other man is only known for offenses against the legislation on foreigners.
Deminers from the central laboratory of the Paris police headquarters had been dispatched to the scene. The railway network brigade had meanwhile been seized of the investigations. A few days before the New Year’s Eve celebrations, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had notably asked the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, to reinforce the security of the Montparnasse station and the other stations in the capital, indicated the entourage of the minister.