Several buckets containing chemicals were discovered on Saturday June 1 in an apartment in Montmorency (Val-d’Oise), reveals BFMTV.
A completely cordoned off area. Three people were arrested on Saturday June 1 after the discovery of several buckets filled with chemicals, reveals BFMTV. The discovery was made by the police in an apartment located on the ground floor of a building located in Montmorency, in Val-d’Oise.
Called around 8:30 p.m. for a suspicious odor in a home, the city’s firefighters went to the site to carry out initial checks. Unable to discover the origin of the odor, it was finally the police, who, also alerted, discovered four buckets inside which there was a quantity of chemicals. Several false identity documents were also discovered on site.
Analyzes still in progress
In order to allow the forensic specialists dispatched to the scene, a security perimeter was set up by the agents, and nine people had to be evacuated. In all, three people were arrested following this discovery, confirmed Pierre Sennes, the Pontoise prosecutor at Parisian. Respectively aged 37, 49 and 47 years old, the three accused are two men and a woman. All three were taken to the premises of the Val-d’Oise organized and specialized crime division to be interviewed. Placed in police custody, they would be unknown to the intelligence services.
In order to remove all doubts about the intentions of those arrested, an observer from the anti-terrorist sub-directorate was also sent to the site to analyze the profile of the suspects, reports BFMTV. This Sunday, June 2, analyzes of the chemicals discovered were still in progress.