PARIS (Reuters) - An unknown group is threatening to bomb several sections of France's SNCF state railway if it is not paid about four million euros (2.6 million pounds), officials say.
The group, which calls itself AZF after a chemical factory in southwestern France that exploded in 2001, has already directed police to one sophisticated timebomb under tracks near Limoges between Paris and Toulouse to prove its technical prowess, they said.
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"I do not think this is a group linked to Islamic radicalism," Michel Gaudin, director general of the national police, told LCI television.
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In its note to news organisations on Tuesday evening, the Interior Ministry said: "It would be preferable that no news is published before this affair is over."
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