A police intervention is underway in Paris at the Iranian Consulate, located in rue de Fresnel, in the residential 16th arrondissement. Around 11am, according to what was learned, a suspicious man was seen by a witness as he entered the consular headquarters in Tehran.
The suspicious man, who entered the Iranian consulate in Paris, declared that he had explosives with him and that he wanted to "avenge his brother." BFM TV learned this from security sources. The area is entirely cordoned off and inaccessible to anyone who is not part of the security services. Traffic on the subway lines serving the neighborhood is interrupted. The police prefect, Laurent Nuez, ordered the immediate deployment of special units to the scene. The Iranian consulate had made a "request for intervention," according to the prefecture, which specified that the consulate had asked for the intervention to take place at the time of the incident.