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French police escort the emergency services following a suspected package bomb blast along a pedestrian street in the heart of Lyon, southeast France, the local prosecutors' office said on May 24, 2019. - Several people were wounded by a suspected package bomb blast on a pedestrian street in the heart of Lyon in southeastern France, the local prosecutors' office said. The area where the explosion occurred, on the narrow strip of land between the Saone and Rhone rivers in the historic city centre, has been evacuated, according to AFP journalists at the scene. Police said eight people had been injured but that none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)

French police arrested Algerian engineer over Lyon bomb attack

on: June 14, 2019

Joachim Veliocas

French police have arrested Algerian engineer after an IED exploded on May. “A suspect has been arrested,” French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, said.

Castaner hailed the arrest of the suspect and praised the work of anti-terrorist investigators.

The A 24-year-old engineer arrested along with another man likely he is his partner.

The suspect is an IT student previously unknown to police.

The explosives used are TATP, the same type used by Daesh. After Sri Lanka’s attacks by high-profile persons and London attacks in 2005 carried out by Islamic doctors, the assumption of Marxist executioners seems unlikely.

The jihadists are driven by a complex ideology, a strong faith, not despair or frustration.