 | Just a simple herdsman... |
A Pakistani man arrested with forged British passports at a Paris airport has no apparent link to any terrorist plot, French prosecutors said Thursday, adding that his case was now being handled as a standard criminal matter.| Oh. Well, that's a relief then. |
Mohammed Billal Youssaf, 23, a resident of Brescia in Italy, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport on Sunday after arriving from the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and preparing to travel to London. | "On business, M. le Customs Agent, on business." |
He had five false British passports and five bogus British driving licences on him, all of them filled out and containing photographs of different individuals.| "Oh, these documents, M. le Border Patrol. They belong to a friend." |
The anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor's office initially took charge of the case as his motives and connections were investigated and he was questioned. "In the current state of the investigations, there is no clear link with any terrorist enterprise," an official at the office said.| "He said it was a cultural thing and we wouldn't understand, so we sent him over to the Ministry of Culture. Our work here is done. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the chalet." |
As a result, Youssaf's case was Thursday transmitted to the prosecutor's office in the northwestern Paris suburb of Bobigny, which has jurisdiction for criminal offences detected at Charles de Gaulle airport. |