Man is held in France over posts about California murders as Olympic torch passes through Bordeaux

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor says a man who posted online about a deadly rampage in California in 2014 has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin posted on the social media platform X that police detained “an individual planning violent action during the passage of the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux.” But Bordeaux prosecutor Frédérique Porterie said on Thursday that although the detained suspect “admitted to having considered committing an act,” the man seemingly had not decided on his target. She said: “No reference to the Olympic flame was mentioned.”