Man Arrested With Handguns at Disneyland Paris

[jennsky]

We had this on our newscast tonight. Here's the Reuters article:

A man was arrested carrying two handguns and a copy of the Koran at the Disneyland Paris amusement park outside Paris on Thursday, French officials said.

France remains in a state of emergency after Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a series of jihadist attacks in and near Paris in November last year.

A police source said the 28-year-old man of European origin arrested at Disneyland had been carrying the guns, one of them an automatic handgun, concealed in a bag with the religious text.

The Interior Ministry said police were also searching for a woman who may have been with the man, correcting a previous statement that she had been arrested.

"Firearms were discovered in the bags of a man as he went through the metal detector during a routine security check at one of our hotels," Disneyland Paris spokesman Francois Banon said.

Euro Disney (EDLP.PA), whose main shareholder is U.S.-based Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), runs the amusement park.

The man was unknown to police before the incident at the park's New York Hotel, the source said.

[ck32250]

Scary stuff. I'm going to read more on this. I can't help but to feel like Disney, in general, really does it right with security.

[Scar]

.. as he went through the metal detector during a routine security check at one of our hotels...

Metal detector at a hotel? Never seen one of these before.

[BrerGnat]

Metal detector at a hotel? Never seen one of these before.

I won't be surprised to see them. Already, the three Disneyland hotels post police outside the main doors most of the time.