A former soldier has admitted framing a baggage handler of Algerian origin who was arrested at France's Charles de Gaulle airport in December with explosives in his car, French state prosecutor Yves Bot says.
"This morning, during custody, the soldier who denounced him admitted to having taken part in a plot in liaison with the in-laws" of the arrested man, Mr Bot said on Friday.
Mr Abderazak Besseghir (27), a Frenchman of Algerian origin, was arrested at the end of December in an incident that heightened fears of terror attacks after police found pistols and explosives in the back of his car parked at Charles de Gaulle international airport, north of Paris.
Mr Besseghir, who has no criminal record and no known links to radical Islamic movements, has said he is innocent and that he is the victim of a plot by his late wife's family to avenge her death in a house fire last year.