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PLANE – The worst has been avoided. A former pilot, who wanted to crash his plane on Notre-Dame-de-Paris cathedral, was arrested and taken into custody Thursday, October 7 in Paris, relates our colleagues from the Parisian and Figaro.
The two media indicate that the individual, aged about fifty, was arrested thanks to the report of one of his relatives, who contacted the police at the borders of Hendaye, who then alerted the Parisian authorities.
“You will see, in the coming days, there is a plane which will crash into Notre-Dame”, he would have said to this famous relative, according to Le Figaro. The Parisian states that the aircraft was a Cessna, a four-seat single-engine passenger plane.
Open investigation
The pre-retired pilot had previously worked for Air Liberté, Air Tahiti in France and Royal Fly in the United Arab Emirates. According to the relative who alerted the authorities, the man arrested would be “psychologically unstable”, “sick” and would have “alcohol and money problems”.
At the time of his arrest Thursday, October 7, around 4:45 pm, the suspect had also been found inside the Saint-Sulpice church, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris “praying, a bottle of whiskey in his pockets ”, specifies The Parisian. To believe Le Figaro, An investigation has been opened.
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