Police arrest man over Sarkozy death threat

French police have arrested a 42 year-old man suspected of sending death threats to President Nicolas Sarkozy and other senior…

French police have arrested a 42 year-old man suspected of sending death threats to President Nicolas Sarkozy and other senior politicians.

The man, from the southern city of Montpellier, was reported to authorities by someone who knew him.

Mr Sarkozy, several of his ministers and other politicians received envelopes within the past two weeks containing a 9mm cartridge and identical letters from an anonymous sender with threats like "you are all dead men walking".

The anti-terrorist unit of the Paris prosecutors' office as well as anti-terrorist police in Paris and the southwestern district of Herault are in charge of the investigation.

Reuters

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