End of the story.

The police custody of the two homeless men who were arrested on Friday at Montparnasse station in Paris with gas cylinders has been lifted and the procedure closed, AFP learned on Sunday from the Paris prosecutor's office.

These two men, a 51-year-old Frenchman and a 29-year-old Libyan, had been taken into custody after the first, an alcoholic, had threatened to blow himself up.

Gas cylinders of the camping stove type had been found in their belongings.

An insufficiently characterized offense

The Frenchman had been temporarily transferred to the psychiatric infirmary, then returned to police custody on Saturday at the end of the afternoon.

The police custody was then lifted and the procedure closed for an insufficiently characterized offense, according to the prosecution.

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They said they wanted to “blow everything up”… Two homeless people arrested with gas bottles from Montparnasse station

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