A package bearing homemade bombs blew up Thursday in a lawyer’s office on a stylish boulevard in central Paris, killing the woman who opened it. The motive for the unusual attack remained unclear.The building also housed an unrelated law firm co-founded by President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as a Holocaust research foundation, although officials said they did not appear to be targeted.
“It is a truly atrocious act,” Sarkozy’s spokesman David Martinon said on France-Info radio.
A messenger delivered the package, a wooden box that turned out to contain two homemade explosive devices, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
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