1st LD: French police seize weapons near military base, arrest former soldier
Xinhua, May 5, 2017 Adjust font size:
French police on Friday found hidden weapons near the military base in western France, where a former soldier was arrested, local media reported.
The 34-year-old soldier was arrested on early Friday morning, according to the newspaper L'Express.
The suspect was already known to French intelligence services before the arrest as "fiche S," which refers to people considered a specific threat to security and those who have been radicalized.
According to a source close to the investigation, quoted by L'Express, "a shotgun, two powder revolvers and ammunition" were discovered near the air base 105 of Evreux, Normandy.
The anti-terrorism unit of the Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for "individual terrorist incident," several media reports said. Endit