Overview

• A package detonated inside a La Poste mail van in Roche-Chalais around midday on Saturday, according to local reporting.
• Two additional suspicious parcels were identified at the Saint-Aulaye post office and neutralized by a gendarmerie bomb squad from Bordeaux.
• The three parcels were addressed to a nationally known deputy, a journalist, and a humorist, and were posted from Roche-Chalais.
• The Périgueux prosecutor opened an investigation, with the Bordeaux research section leading the investigative work.
• No arrests had been made by Saturday evening, and the national anti-terror prosecutor had not taken the case as a source suggested it could be a “bad joke.”