{"id":570906,"date":"2026-03-28T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570906\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:25:11","slug":"french-police-thwart-a-suspected-bombing-outside-a-bank-of-america-building-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570906\/","title":{"rendered":"French police thwart a suspected bombing outside a Bank of America building in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French police have thwarted a suspected bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Paris\">Paris<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>One suspect was detained and another escaped.<\/p>\n<p>The national anti-terrorism prosecutor\u2019s office, or PNAT, told The Associated Press that it has opened an investigation into alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"terrorism-related\">terrorism-related<\/a> offences.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/237e669f-28bc-4500-ae35-66dd5f69c1d6.jpeg\"   alt=\"Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Nicolas Garriga)\"\/>Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>The suspected offences include attempted damage by fire or by a dangerous means, the manufacture of an incendiary or explosive device, the possession and transport of such devices with the intent to prepare dangerous damage, and involvement in a terrorist criminal association.<\/p>\n<p>A person was placed in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell done to the rapid intervention of a Paris police prefecture unit, which made it possible to thwart a violent act of a terrorist nature overnight in Paris,\u201d Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVigilance remains at a very high level,&#8221; Nu\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I commend all security and intelligence forces, fully mobilised under my authority in the current international context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9d53421f-aaf5-4a26-b2a0-e798d635d23d.jpeg\"   alt=\"Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Nicolas Garriga)\"\/>One suspect was detained and another escaped. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>RTL radio, citing police sources, reported that the incident took place early Saturday (Paris time) when police officers spotted two suspects carrying a shopping bag near the premises of the Bank of America in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects, holding a lighter, was attempting to ignite a device, RTL said, while the second suspect managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris police prefecture declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Iran war broke out, French authorities have increased personal protection of some figures from the Iranian opposition and stepped up security around sites that could be a target, including sites linked to US interests and to the Jewish community, Nu\u00f1ez said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French police have thwarted a suspected bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-570906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}