00:00French police foiled a suspected bomb attack outside a U.S. bank in Paris early on Saturday morning
00:07when they arrested a man about to set off an improvised explosive device.
00:13The incident took place outside a Bank of America building in the capital's 8th district,
00:18a few streets away from the Champs-Elysées.
00:22Police arrested the man just after he placed a device made of 5 litres of liquid,
00:28believed to be fuel and an ignition system.
00:32Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has said the investigation has been taken over
00:37by France's counter-terrorism prosecutor's office.
00:42Paris Judicial Police and France's Domestic Intelligence Service are also involved in the probe.
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