Paris: Explosive Device Attack Outside Bank of America

In the night from Friday to Saturday, an explosive device attack occurred outside the Bank of America in Paris.

“The suspicion of a link with Iran is not surprising,” said Cédric Perrin, LR senator of Territoire de Belfort and president of the defense and foreign affairs committee in the Senate, after the explosive device attack outside the Bank of America in Paris. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office immediately took charge.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez made the “link” on Saturday evening on BFMTV to the Middle East war, seeing in the modus operandi of this attack “similarities” with actions carried out in several European countries and claimed by a mysterious group, considered close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. “Considering the Middle East context, considering the means and especially the methods that Iranians have been applying since 1979 [date of the revolution] especially towards the West, it is obvious that the risk of terrorist attacks is increasing,” emphasizes Cédric Perrin.

“We will need to think about providing the means to work” on intelligence, demands the senator, pointing out encrypted messaging services like “Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, and others.” “Significantly improving the ability to decode these messaging services is necessary,” he adds. “It is a major debate currently in Parliament. When you have completely isolated and encrypted messaging services, it is extremely complicated for intelligence services to trace the connections or anticipate attacks or attempted attacks,” insists the senator. The person arrested for the thwarted attack confessed to the police that she was placed there and recruited via the Snapchat app, in exchange for 600 euros.