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Guernseyman gets caught up in Paris terror alert

A GUERNSEYMAN arrived home to find a high-security operation under way after a suicide bomber's vest, thought to be linked to France's terror attacks and the most wanted man in Europe, was dumped outside his Paris doorstep.

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Pilot Henry Richardson's home in the Montrouge suburb was cordoned off by police after the vest was discovered in a dustbin outside, sparking a major alert.

A street cleaner spotted the ditched explosive device close to where a mobile phone was found belonging to still-at-large terror suspect Salah Abdeslam – thought to be the driver of the rented car that drove the attackers to the Bataclan concert hall on Friday 13 November.

Although the abandoned vest has not been formally linked to Abdeslam, there are reports that it has 'the same configuration' as those used by other terrorists involved in the coordinated attacks across the French capital which left 130 people dead and injured hundreds more.

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