{"id":5154,"date":"2026-03-28T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:13:55","slug":"french-police-foil-apparent-bomb-attack-outside-of-bank-of-america-building-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=5154","title":{"rendered":"French police foil apparent bomb attack outside of Bank of America building in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>French police stopped an apparent bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris early Saturday, sources told the Agence France-Presse. A man was arrested as he was about to set off a homemade explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>Police grabbed the man just after he placed a device, made of nine pints of a liquid believed to be fuel, 23 ounces of explosive powder, and an ignition system, according to an initial assessment. The device will undergo a full analysis at the Paris police&#8217;s forensics lab.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 3:30 a.m., while the office was closed. No employees were injured, according to the bank. The building is located in Paris&#8217; chic 8th arrondissement, a few streets away from the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America head of global media relations Jessica Oppenheim told CBS News that the company is &#8220;aware of the situation&#8221; and is &#8220;communicating with authorities.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/28\/f74c68de-1494-416d-b05a-88db05ce6047\/thumbnail\/620x399\/cfada37e52e46d03a074a1a505db3f04\/gettyimages-2268263116.jpg#\" alt=\"FRANCE-US-ATTACK-POLICE \" height=\"399\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/28\/f74c68de-1494-416d-b05a-88db05ce6047\/thumbnail\/620x399\/cfada37e52e46d03a074a1a505db3f04\/gettyimages-2268263116.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/28\/f74c68de-1494-416d-b05a-88db05ce6047\/thumbnail\/1240x798\/98376a11c9270884f4b240dbfccc3cb9\/gettyimages-2268263116.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A policeman stands outside The Bank of America building in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on March 28, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Sebastien DUPUY \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The AFP reported that French anti-terror prosecutors are handling the incident. The office told the AFP that it was investigating &#8220;attempted damage by fire or other dangerous means in connection with a terrorist undertaking&#8221; and a &#8220;terrorist criminal conspiracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Paris police and France&#8217;s domestic intelligence service are also investigating. CBS News has reached out to Paris police for additional comment.<\/p>\n<p>French interior minister Laurent Nunez praised the police officers&#8217; fast actions on X and said they stopped &#8220;a violent action of a terrorist nature last night in Paris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p> French police foil apparent bomb attack outside of Bank of America building in Paris<br \/>\n<br \/>#French #police #foil #apparent #bomb #attack #Bank #America #building #Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French police stopped an apparent bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[869,5060,922,78,3096,2494,5059,5058,5061,2548],"class_list":["post-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-america","tag-apparent","tag-attack","tag-bank","tag-bomb","tag-building","tag-foil","tag-french","tag-paris","tag-police"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116.jpg",1200,630,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2268263116-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}