A car packed with gas cylinders found near Notre Dame, Paris

Suspicion of a plot to blow up the famous Paris cathedral of Notre Dame was raised by the discovery of a Peugot packed with gas cylinders nearby. Police say the car’s owner, now in custody, is on an intelligence watchlist of people suspected of radical Islamism. A second person has also been arrested. Found in the car also was a book written in Arabic. 

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