French Police Detain Second Couple After Notre Dame Car Scare A car loaded with cooking gas canisters was found near Notre Dame Cathedral in ParisBy Inti Landauro
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PARIS—French police detained a second couple as part of terror investigation after a car loaded with cooking gas canisters was found near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday morning, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor said.
The man and a woman detained Wednesday evening in the Loiret area, 100 miles south of Paris, are being questioned by the police, a spokeswoman for the antiterror prosecutor said Thursday. She didn’t provide further information on their identity.
The police on Tuesday arrested the couple who own the car on a highway near Orange, a French city hundreds of miles south of Paris. One of the car’s owners is on a national-security watch list.
Police discovered the car with its hazard lights blinking and no license plate, according to a police officer familiar with the matter. One gas canister was found on the front seat while six others were recovered from the car’s trunk, the officer said, adding that no detonator was found.
The spokeswoman said three bottles of petrol were also found in the trunk.
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