{"id":550744,"date":"2026-03-28T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:35:07","slug":"french-authorities-foil-bomb-attack-outside-bank-of-america-branch-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550744\/","title":{"rendered":"French authorities foil bomb attack outside Bank of America branch in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French police foiled a suspected bomb attack outside a US bank in Paris early on Saturday morning when they arrested a man about to set off an improvised explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at around 3:30 am CET outside a Bank of America building on Rue de la Bo\u00e9tie in the capital&#8217;s 8th arrondissement, a few streets from the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the man just after he placed a device, made of five litres of liquid, believed to be fuel, and an ignition system, news agency AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, the investigation has been taken over by France&#8217;s counter-terrorism prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Paris judicial police and France&#8217;s domestic intelligence service, the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), are involved in the probe<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez hailed the speedy action by the police officers, given &#8220;the current international situation&#8221;, in which European countries have increased domestic vigilance because of the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>He said that &#8220;vigilance remains more than ever at a high level&#8221; in France.<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources \u2022 AFP, Le Parisien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French police foiled a suspected bomb attack outside a US bank in Paris early on Saturday morning when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8212,245037,4,450,451,3,593,452,453],"class_list":["post-550744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-attack","tag-bomb-blast","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-paris","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}