Police in southeastern France have arrested the former head of a French company at the centre of a breast-implant health scandal that has affected tens of thousands of women worldwide, police say.
Jean-Claude Mas, who ran the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), was detained at his residence in the Mediterranean coastal town of Six Fours Les Plages shortly before dawn, a police official told the Associated Press news agency.
Barnaby Phillips reports.
