PARIS, Aug 11: A Pakistani man arrested with forged British passports at a Paris airport has no apparent link to any terrorist plot, French prosecutors said on Thursday, adding that his case was now being handled as a standard criminal matter.
Mohammed Billal Youssaf, 23, a resident of Brescia in Italy, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport on Sunday after arriving from Lahore and preparing to travel to London.
He had five forged British passports and five bogus British driving licences on him, all of them filled out and containing photographs of different individuals. 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. As a result, Youssaf’s case was on Thursday transmitted to the prosecutor’s office.—AFP
