French intelligence services believe an attempt to plant a bomb outside the Bank of America in Paris is linked to a pro-Iran group, Europe correspondent Catherine Field says.
Police in Paris foiled the bombing and arrested the suspect – a 17-year-old immigrant who said he had been recruited via Snapchat for €600 (NZ$1202).
Field told Mike Hosking the attempt bore the hallmarks of previous Iran-linked attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as an arson attack on four Jewish–run ambulances in London.
“That is what's got the intelligence services and the anti-terrorism police here particularly concerned,” she said.
“It's possibly a group they've not heard about before and they're using social media in a way that they've seen before, that's very difficult to monitor.”
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