France: new threatening letter containing a bullet sent to Sarkozy

PARIS - A new threatening letter addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, containing a bullet, was received September 22 at the Presidency, two days after the arrest of a suspect in the south of France, said on Tuesday a judicial source.

•     The anonymous author of the letter, sent from Roubaix in northern France, says he "takes over" the "cell 34", at the origin of thirty threatening letters, often accompanied with a bullet, sent from the south to politicians including Nicolas Sarkozy.
  
      The Anti-Terror Branch of the homicide squad of the police of Paris has statrted the investigation of this new threatening letter.
  
      Another letter accompanied by a shot, posted in Roubaix apparently by the same person, and containing "vague threats" against the police, was received by the police station of the city about a week before the arrest of the suspect, said police sources.
  
      A man of 51, disabled and unemployed member of a shooting club, suspected of having sent the threatening letters on behalf of the "cell 34", was arrested on September 20 in Hérépian, a village in southern France. He was charged two days later in Paris, for "death threats", and imprisoned.
  
      
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