Man Held in France After Dropping Box With Severed Head Inside It

French police were holding a man under arrest on Tuesday after discovering a severed head in a box that had been thrown out of a window in the centre of the southern port city of Toulon.

Local police said there appeared to be no indication of a terror motive, with France still on edge after the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, by an Islamist extremist in October.

Passers-by alerted police Monday afternoon when they saw a box fall from a window of a building in the city centre, a police spokesman told AFP.

Shortly after police arrived, a man appeared at the window of the apartment, his hands covered in blood. The man, who was not armed, was then arrested after officers broke down the door.

According to a…