French anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating whether a thwarted bombing at Bank of America’s Paris office was linked to an Iran-backed group that has urged attacks on Jewish communities and businesses across Europe, according to a Financial Times report.

Prosecutors said the attempted attack last week appeared “likely to be attributable” to Ashab al-Yamin, a newly emerged pro-Iranian group that has claimed responsibility online for antisemitic arson attacks in the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands, the FT reported.

French authorities said three men had been placed under formal investigation, including two minors. Two of the suspects were allegedly caught while planting the device outside the bank’s office in Paris’s eighth arrondissement early on Saturday, while a third person was accused of directing them to set off the incendiary device and film the scene in exchange for between €500 and €1,000, the report said.

Police had increased surveillance around the Bank of America site after Ashab al-Yamin posted a video earlier in the week calling for attacks on Jewish communities and businesses in France and elsewhere in Europe, including the bank’s office on Rue de la Boétie, according to the FT.

Prosecutors said officers conducting surveillance saw two individuals handling what appeared to be an incendiary device at the entrance to the building and immediately arrested one 17-year-old suspect, while the second fled. The device consisted of a five-liter container filled about two-thirds with gasoline and taped to a large firework, and experts concluded it could have generated a fireball several meters in diameter, the FT reported.

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