Posted on 04/12/2022 6:49:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
A 47-year-old man with known a history of placing suspicious parcels on the city’s metro system has been indicted by prosecutors in Toulouse after allegedly planting an explosive device in the Saint-Etienne cathedral.
The man was arrested on Friday by French police in the suburb of Balma several hours after he is said to have placed an explosive device at the foot of the altar of the Saint-Etienne cathedral at around 8:30 am that morning during Mass.
As the man attempted to flee the cathedral, a church employee, a sacristan, made an attempt to detain the man before he could leave but was unable, newspaper Le Dauphine reports.
“A man came in with a package under his arm. I mistook him for a delivery man. He walked through the nave and dropped off the package in front of the steps of the altar. He shoved me, he said something and he left,” the sacristan said.
The package is believed to have been an improvised explosive device and the incident led to 40 worshippers needing to be evacuated from the cathedral. The package did not explode, however, and police later dealt with it.
On Saturday, the Toulouse prosecutor’s office stated that the 47-year-old had been indicted and charged with premeditated violence and noted that the man had previously been convicted of threatening people with a weapon.
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Muslim I’m assuming unless I read otherwise.
I predict Macaroni will easily win the election and France will continue its slide down le shitter.
France has “man.”
America has “teens.”
We can always see how old they are but never what they look like.
I’m not particularly a believer, but this breaks my heart. I dislike seeing a nation’s tolerance (naïveté) used against them, especially against Christians and Jews, as both religions center around community and forgiveness.
An Amish man?
An Englishman?
A trans man?
It is a puzzlement, said a Siam man.
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