PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs told its Paris staff they could work remotely on Thursday following a foiled \u200cbomb attack on Bank of America Paris offices last \u200cSaturday, a source familiar with the matter said, while Citigroup staff in Paris and \u200bFrankfurt are also working remotely.<\/p>\n
French authorities have placed four suspects in pre-trial detention over the plot, which potentially had links to Iran.<\/p>\n
The Paris police authority did not immediately reply to a request seeking comment, \u200cwhile the Paris prosecutor’s \u2060office declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Citigroup’s is a precautionary measure, the group said in an emailed statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n
French anti-terrorism \u2060prosecutors said late on Wednesday the four suspects \u2014 three teenagers aged 16 and 17 and one adult \u2014 were placed under formal investigation on \u200bsuspicion of \u200bmanufacturing, transporting and handling an \u200bexplosive device and attempting to \u200cdestroy property as part of a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n
The device, a five-litre petrol can taped to a large pyrotechnic charge containing a 650-gram active-material cylinder, was the most powerful of its kind ever identified in France and could have generated “a powerful fireball several meters in \u200cdiameter,” the anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office said \u200blate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Investigators established the adult recruited \u200bthe teenagers, paying them \u200bbetween 500 and 1,000 euros ($580-$1,160) to plant and \u200cfilm the device. All four denied \u200bterrorist intent.<\/p>\n
France suspects \u200bthe attack is linked to HAYI, a pro-Iranian group that had posted a video on March 23 specifically naming Bank \u200bof America’s Paris \u200cheadquarters, though prosecutors said the link has not yet been \u200bformally established.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Anousha Sakoui and Mathieu Rosemain. Editing \u200bby Inti Landauro and Jane Merriman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs told its Paris staff they could work remotely on Thursday following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1728,1727,51,1726,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-1792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-bomb-attack","9":"tag-citigroup","10":"tag-explosive-device","11":"tag-goldman-sachs","12":"tag-paris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}