France has released four of five suspected militants detained as part of a French inquiry into the September 11 attacks on the United States and will decide the fate of the fifth later on Saturday, a judicial source said.
The DST domestic intelligence agency arrested the five on Tuesday in Selestat and Colmar in the eastern Alsace region as part of an investigation led by anti-terrorism judges Jean-Louis Brugiere and Jean-Francois Richard.
The man still being held is a manager of a computer shop in Colmar Judicial authorities will decide on Saturday whether he would be brought before an anti-terrorism judge with a view to being placed under official investigation, the source said.
The other four were released without charge.