Police in Paris have detained a man in connection with Thursday's parcel bomb attack at law offices which killed one person and injured several others.

A police source told the French news agency AFP that the man had been reported in 2005 for harassment of lawyer Catherine Gouet-Jenselme.

A secretary in the Gouet-Jenselme law firm was killed in the Paris bombing.

Police want to trace the female courier who brought the lethal package. It was reportedly addressed to the lawyers.

The office secretary, aged 60, opened the package, which contained two explosive devices concealed in a small wooden box.

A lawyer nearby, 58-year-old Olivier Brane, was seriously injured.

The secretary's name has not been released.

The former law firm of President Nicolas Sarkozy, Arnaud Claude et AssociГ©s, is located in the same building as the office where the device exploded, at 52 Boulevard Malesherbes.

The building also contains an office for The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah - a Holocaust remembrance body.

French officials said the parcel bomb exploded on the fourth floor - not the one where Sarkozy's old firm is located.

There was no suggestion of a link.

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