( AFP ) - French police detained a man for questioning over a parcel bomb attack on a Paris lawyers' office in which an assistant was killed and a lawyer seriously wounded, a police official said Friday.
In 2005 the man was the subject of a harassment complaint from the senior lawyer at the office Catherine Gouet-Jenselme, though the case never reached court, the official said.
Police also said they are looking for the woman who delivered the booby-trapped packet to the fourth floor office shortly after noon Thursday.
The building in Paris's fashionable eighth arrondissement also houses the law office where President Nicolas Sarkozy once worked, but investigators do not believe there is a political link.
The blast killed 60 year-old secretary Jacqueline Belbouai and injured Olivier Brane, 58. The lawyer was hospitalised but his life is not in danger.