Five sticks of explosives have been defused at a department store in Paris.
Police evacuated and cordoned off the Printemps Haussmann store while they located and defused the explosives.
The find came following a tip off from a group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan, a spokesman at the Paris prosecutor's office said.
The group named itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front, which is not known to the police, the spokesman said.
The five sticks of explosives did not have detonators attached and the spokesman said French anti-terrorist police thought the devices had been placed as a warning.
