Paris (AFP) – A man carrying two handguns, ammunition and a Koran was arrested Thursday at a hotel in Disneyland Paris, a police source said.
The man was “detected upon his arrival at the hotel on the Disneyland site where he had a reservation. Hotel security found two handguns, a Koran and ammunition on him,” the source said.
Disneyland Paris said the guns were picked up by routine scanning of the man’s bags at the hotel entrance.
Police arrested the suspect and secured his vehicle.
A police source said preliminary investigations did not point to terrorism, and that the man had said he was carrying the guns because he feared for his safety.
They then arrested a woman, believing her to be his girlfriend, but released her after realizing they had the wrong person, one of the police sources said.
Papers found on the suspect indicated that he lived in Paris, but no further details were given. His girlfriend was still being sought.
Disneyland Paris is the most visited theme park in Europe, with 14.8 million visitors in 2015, according to Euro Disney’s annual report.