Creteil (AFP)
The man arrested in possession of a knife when boarding for his flight at Orly airport Thursday, and his girlfriend who had called the police assuring that he planned "an attack", should be judged Monday , we learned Friday at the prosecutor's office of Créteil.
The woman was taken into custody during the day for misleading denunciation: late Thursday afternoon, while his companion was preparing to embark on a flight to Barcelona, she had called the police pretending to be the sister of the man, assuring them that he had "planned to make an attack".
The man, 34 years old and not known justice, had been arrested without incident at the time of boarding a flight to Barcelona, after passing the security checks. He had in his hand luggage a knife - actually a small metal blade unfoldable from a support the size of a blue card.
In custody, he claimed that it was "his girlfriend, with whom he had a fight", who had called the police. He also said he forgot that the blade was in his bag. "It seems she wanted to take revenge after an argument," said a source close to the file.
The man will be judged Monday in front of the court of Créteil (Val-de-Marne) for the detention and the transport of the knife, and the woman for false denunciation and impedes the circulation of an aircraft: the plane had had to be evacuated for security, and delayed flight.
On Monday, a woman was arrested because a loaded pistol was found in her cabin luggage during a check in a transit zone at Roissy airport. She was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in prison suspended by the Criminal Court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).
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