Group Threatens to Attack in France
PARIS -- A group sent parts of bomb detonators to President Jacques Chirac and the Interior Ministry, threatening to carry out attacks unless it was paid off, authorities said Friday.
The identical letters, signed by a group calling itself AZF, were received Thursday. They carried threats of striking in May, the prosecutor's office said.
Officials did not disclose the specific nature of the threatened attacks or the amount of payment demanded.
The office said that each letter was posted in France and contained pieces of detonators.
Investigators were analyzing the letters and attempting to identify the group and stop it from acting, it said.
Threats from AZF last year led to a massive search of 19,885 miles of train track for explosives after the group indicated the location of one device buried under a track. Last year's letters demanded a payment of $2 million.
In July, letters signed by AZF were sent to eight multinational food and cosmetics companies, threatening to poison their products if they didn't each pay $1.35 million each. No evidence of a poison plot was found.
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Poor France...odd how they threaten and attack countries that stuck up for them