French police arrested a man carrying two handguns at the Disneyland Paris amusement park outside Paris today Thursday Jan 28th, an Interior Ministry official said.
Disney security staff stopped the 28-year-old man after his suitcase passed through an X-ray machine, local media reports. The man did not resist arrest. French media report he is from Paris, but not known to the local police or French intelligence. He is now being questioned by the police.
The man was reportedly arrested quietly and went with the police without protest, according to BBC. Park-goers seemed to carry on unaffected by the incident. Employees at multiple hotels around the resort told the Associated Press they continued functioning as usual after the arrest.
A woman said to be his girlfriend was also arrested. A spokeswoman for Euro Disney, which runs the amusement park and whose main shareholder is U.S-based Walt Disney Co., had no immediate information to offer about the incident.
A police source said the investigation did not point to terrorism, and that the man claimed he was carrying the weapons for personal protection.
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