Two people were arrested in southern France on Tuesday (September 7) in southern France after a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral was found with several gas canisters inside over the weekend.<br /><br /> The car, whose owner is on an intelligence services watchlist of people suspected of religious radicalisation, was discovered near Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday night with seven gas cylinders inside, police and judicial officials said on Wednesday, Reuters news agency reported.<br /><br /> The car owner was taken into custody but later released, one judicial official said. <br /><br /> #BREAKING: Picture of the car with 7 gas canisters found near Notre Dame Cathedral #Paris; 2 people arrested pic.twitter.com/hucTvwANpa— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) September 7, 2016<br /> <br /><br /> The Peugeot 607, which had no registration plates, contained seven gas cylinders, one of them empty on the front passenger seat, two police officials said.<br /><br /> It was found with its hazard lights flashing, as if to attract attention, they said.<br /><br /> France’s interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he was waiting for a report from investigators on what the possible motives were for the incident.<br /><br /> Cazeneuve said there have been 260 arrests linked to extremist networks since the beginning of the year “and a significant number of these people were preparing attacks,” reported Associated Press news agency.<br /><br /> There was no detonating device present in the car, found on a Seine riverside stretch called the Quai de Montebello, metres from the Notre-Dame cathedral, one of Paris’s many popular tourist attractions.<br />
