Six French airports were partially or completely evacuated this Wednesday due to bomb threats received by email, police said this Wednesday, adding that the airports of Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais were at risk.
Around 12:00 local time (11:00 in Lisbon), some of these airports reported receiving bomb threats or abandoned luggage, requiring authorities to intervene.
In a message published on the social network Facebook, Beauvais Airport said that “several airports have received an anonymous threat.”
In recent days, this situation has become more frequent: museums, transport stations and schools are being evacuated.
The Palace of Versailles was evacuated on Tuesday, which had already been done on Saturday, and the Louvre in Paris also had to be cleared of visitors and staff, as well as the Gare de Lyon, one of Paris’s largest train stations. French capital.
Gambetta High School in Arras, where a teacher was stabbed to death by an Islamist terrorist, was also evacuated on Monday morning following another bomb alert.
The French government mobilized 10,000 police officers and activated maximum preparedness for a terrorist attack. This meant the police force received the support of 7,000 soldiers as part of Operation Sentinel, a measure launched in 2015 by then-President Francois Hollande due to a wave of terrorist attacks. attacks on the “jihadists” that descended on the country that year (Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo).
Since 2012, terrorist attacks linked to Islamic extremism in France have killed 272 people and injured 1,200 others in 2015 and 2016.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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