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“A witness saw a man come in with a grenade or an explosives belt,” the source said, adding that an elite police unit was mobilized to intervene after the consulate requested it.
An AFP reporter said the entire block around the consulate in the capital’s 16th arrondissement was cordoned off with heavy police presence.
The Paris transport company RATP said on the X social network that traffic was suspended on two metro lines crossing stops near the consulate.
French police arrested the man after a warning from the Iranian consulate in Paris
French authorities arrested a man on Friday after receiving a warning from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered with an explosive device, the capital’s police said.
“The man has left the consulate and is under the control” of police, the statement said. Earlier, a security source told the AFP news agency that consulate called law enforcement when a witness saw a man walking in with a grenade or explosives belt.
Police found no explosives at the Iranian consulate or on the detained suspect, prosecutors said. “Currently, no explosives have been observed on him or at the site,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
Police arrested the man, who was born in Iran in 1963, after he left the consulate there “after threatening acts of violence,” the statement said.
