A man was arrested and placed in custody Sunday over a series of threatening emails sent to Cannes' town hall and the Grasse courthouse, French authorities confirmed, in a case now being investigated as glorification of terrorism.
According to police sources, the emails, which contained references to the Islamic State, were directed at the office of Cannes mayor David Lisnard, who also serves as president of the Association des Maires de France and is a declared candidate in France's 2027 presidential election, as well as at the Grasse judicial court.
Investigators say the suspect was known to territorial intelligence documentation but had no record in the national judicial antecedents database and had not previously been flagged as an active threat. A search of his home turned up no immediate evidence of radicalisation, according to investigators, though the inquiry remains ongoing. Glorification of terrorism carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a 75,000 euro fine under French law, rising to seven years when the offence is committed online.