Overview
- Police set a static watch at Goldman Sachs’ Paris office after overnight threats on Thursday, and officers reported no suspicious item.
- Citigroup told employees in Paris and Frankfurt to work from home on Thursday as a precaution, and the Paris police prefecture said it was boosting protection around sensitive sites.
- The national antiterror prosecutor opened a judicial investigation on Wednesday and judges ordered pre‑trial detention for four suspects, including three minors, while a fifth adult was released without charges.
- Lab analysts said the device combined a 650‑gram high‑power pyrotechnic charge with a fuel can and could have produced a large fireball and a spreading fire.
- Investigators are testing a possible link to the pro‑Iran group HAYI after a March 23 propaganda video named the bank’s Paris site, and they activated European judicial cooperation based on similar actions reported in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.