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A Frenchman suspected of involvement in a wave of attacks against speed cameras near Paris had both hands blown off this morning when his home-made bomb exploded in his flat. Police said his condition was critical. Interior minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said “multiple clues” pointed to the 41-year old postal worker being linked to the Nationalist Revolutionary Army Faction (Fnar), a shadowy “guerrilla” group which has claimed responsibility for destroying dozens of speed traps. Investigators say the man exclaimed: “I am from the Fnar” when firemen arrived at his flat in Clichy-La-Garenne, west of Paris.

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via translation - One man was very seriously injured in the night when handling an explosive device in an apartment in Clichy-la-Garenne in the Paris suburbs. It is "in a desperate state", according to a source close to the investigation. An important security perimeter was set up in the avenue, one of the main arteries of Clichy, and began to be lifted to 04H00. Demining services were present. According to a police source, the sub-directorate terrorism (SDAT) was seized of the investigation. According to the mayor of Clichy, Gilles Catoire, who was on the spot, "a large quantity of explosives...