PARIS, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- French police have arrested a second couple in connection with an abandoned car in Paris loaded with gas cylinders and diesel cans, local media reported.
The couple, aged 27 and 26, were put into custody late Wednesday, BFMTV said.
Police had arrested a 34-year-old man, the owner of the abandoned car, and a 29-year-old woman, on a motorway in southern France.
The man, who is on the intelligence services watch-list for radicalization, was released later, according to the BFMTV report.
The car, a Peugeot 607, had no registration plate and its hazard lights were flashing when it was found near the Notre-Dame Cathedral. The vehicle contained seven gas cylinders, including an empty one on the front passenger seat, in addition to three diesel cans.
Anti-terrorism units found in the car documents written in the Arabic language, but they did not discover detonators.
France has been on high alert since Nov. 13, 2015, when several almost simultaneous attacks killed some 130 people in Paris. In July, the country saw two more terror attacks, one in Nice in southern France and the other in a church in northern France.
