A man was arrested after walking into New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral carrying two full petrol cans, lighter fluid and lighters, on Thursday 18th April.
They say guards confronted the 37-year-old as he entered the Manhattan church on Wednesday 17th April.
He spilt gasoline on the ground and officers took him into custody.
Deputy police commissioner John Miller noted that the “suspicious” incident occurred just two days after a fire gutted Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.
The NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism however said it was “too early to say” whether terrorism was a motive.
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