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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Man is held in France over posts about California murders as Olympic torch passes through Bordeaux

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A man in France who posted online about a deadly rampage in California in 2014 has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own, the French prosecutor overseeing the police probe in Bordeaux said Thursday.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin posted on the social media platform X that police detained “an individual planning violent action during the passage of the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux.”

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