TERROR Attack in France: 4 Jihadis Arrested in Shrapnel/Nail Bombing in Lyon

LY French police have arrested a 24-year-old Algerian computer student suspected of planting a bomb in Lyon last week that wounded 13 people, authorities said on Monday.Three other people were also arrested in connection with the case, which is being treated as a terrorism investigation. The attack came as France remains on alert following a wave of terror attacks – including a double stabbing inside high-security Condé-sur-Sarthe prison back in March. And just last year, a gunman opened fire at the Strasbourg Christmas Market, killing 5 and injuring 11.

Casualties included a little girl, 8, who suffered leg wounds after parcel packed with nails, nuts, bolts and screws exploded just after 5.30pm on May 24.

Reported here at GR: FRANCE BOMB BLOODBATH: Lyon ‘explosion injures thirteen people including girl, 8, after nail bomb, shrapnel explodes in street’

#Breaking: Just in – Reports now of up to 10 people injured and whom 2 in critical condition, after a IED explosion at the “Victor-Hugo” street in #Lyon in #France, police concerned now of all surrounding streets for investigation. pic.twitter.com/gs39EvYpaA

— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) May 24, 2019

Sources close to the investigation said the Algerian student who is the main suspect did not have police records, while the other three detainees included his mother and younger brother who is a high-school student.

Police found the man thanks to security camera footage, Lyon mayor Gerard Collomb told BFM TV station.

Footage showed a partially masked man wheeling a bike to the scene before leaving a bag outside a bakery. Police then tracked him to a suburb of Lyon.

1) Explosion in #Lyon, #France is being investigated as act of terrorism & manhunt is underway for cyclist seen leaving package in front of bakery. Tho no group claimed the attack, pro-#ISIS channels are celebrating, calling France a “war torn country” that is “under attack.” pic.twitter.com/uZOvi1FXaA

— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) May 24, 2019

DNA traces were found on the remains of the parcel, according to sources close to the investigation.

Another source said judicial police tailed the man on Monday and arrested him as he alighted from a bus in downtown Lyon.

Police searched the suspect’s home but decided not to arrest him there, the source said, for fear there could still be some triacetone triperoxide or TATP, the powerful but unstable homemade explosive used in the attack.

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France arrests four over Lyon blast

Investigators are seen during a police operation in Oullins, France, May 27, 2019. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot

Reuters, May 24, 2019:

LYON (Reuters) – French police have arrested a 24-year-old Algerian computer student suspected of planting a bomb in Lyon last week that wounded 13 people, authorities said on Monday.

Three other people were also arrested in connection with the case, which is being treated as a terrorism investigation.

A man was spotted by security cameras leaving the explosive device, with screws and metal balls packed into a paper bag, in a pedestrian shopping street in the central French city on Friday a minute before it exploded.

Sources close to the investigation said the Algerian student who is the main suspect did not have police records, while the other three detainees included his mother and younger brother who is a high-school student.

Police found the man thanks to security camera footage, Lyon mayor Gerard Collomb told BFM TV station.

Footage showed a partially masked man wheeling a bike to the scene before leaving a bag outside a bakery. Police then tracked him to a suburb of Lyon.

DNA traces were found on the remains of the parcel, according to sources close to the investigation.

Another source said judicial police tailed the man on Monday and arrested him as he alighted from a bus in downtown Lyon.

Police searched the suspect’s home but decided not to arrest him there, the source said, for fear there could still be some triacetone triperoxide or TATP, the powerful but unstable homemade explosive used in the attack.