50-year-old man wanted to enter a playground set up by the French Handball Federation, located at Place Kléber. When he presented his bag to a security agent, the latter noticed that he was in possession of a rifle and a silencer.
The suspect would be “out of medication”, said the source close to the investigation, without further details at this stage. He was still in police custody this Monday morning, she said. The man was arrested in the city center of Strasbourg.