Man held in France over killings post as Olympic torch passes through Bordeaux

Zoe Grospiron carries the Olympic torch in Biarritz, southwestern France, on Monday (Nicolas Mollo/AP)

A man in France who posted online about a deadly 2014 rampage in California has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own, the French prosecutor overseeing the police probe in Bordeaux said on Thursday.

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin posted on X, formerly Twitter, that police detained “an individual planning violent action during the passage of the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux”.