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This just breaking:

“A suspected assassin has been caught trying to break into Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential palace in Paris.

The 25-year-old intruder was wrestled to the ground as he tried to slip past guards at the main entrance of the Elysee Palace on Monday afternoon.

A police official said the man was searched at the scene and found to be armed with a
knife and a Taser-type weapon that fires high-voltage electric darts.”

What I don’t get, is this:

“A witness said that a group of men were at the palace’s entrance when guards pulled
one man aside. ”

Either he was breaking in, or he was with a group of men, or all the men were breaking in, no?

A possible motive: “Mr Sarkozy was inside the palace at the time meeting prime minister Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro.”

Montenegro is strongly allied with Serbia, and fought with Seribian troops in the the 1991-1995 wars. It was recently voted to be independent of Serbia, though disputes still erupt about what exactly is its status.

It would be easy to find a grievance in here somewhere….

Updated:
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French police found a package of explosives at the Printemps department store complex in central Paris on Tuesday, a spokeswoman at Paris police headquarters said.

French police found a package of explosives at the Printemps department store complex in central Paris on Tuesday.

The spokeswoman, Mélanie Leprettre, said a warning about the explosives had been sent Tuesday morning to the French news agency Agence France-Presse, which alerted the police.

A previously unknown group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan claimed to have planted the explosive devices. Officials said that five sticks of dynamite had been found.”

Bomb in Paris

Update II: MSNBC is now reporting 5 bombs have been found.

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