Man arrested with handguns at Disneyland Paris
A general view of the main entrance to the Disneyland Paris Resort run by EuroDisney S.C.A in Marne-la-Vallee January 21, 2015. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
A man was arrested carrying two handguns and a copy of the Koran at the Disneyland Paris amusement park outside Paris on Thursday, French officials said.
France remains in a state of emergency after Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a series of jihadist attacks in and near Paris in November last year.
A police source said the 28-year-old man of European origin arrested at Disneyland had been carrying the guns, one of them an automatic handgun, concealed in a bag with the religious text.
The Interior Ministry said police were also searching for a woman who may have been with the man, correcting a previous statement that she had been arrested.
"Firearms were discovered in the bags of a man as he went through the metal detector during a routine security check at one of our hotels," Disneyland Paris spokesman Francois Banon said.
Euro Disney, whose main shareholder is U.S.-based Walt Disney Co, runs the amusement park.
The man was unknown to police before the incident at the park's New York Hotel, the source said.
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