2023-10-20 15:15:08
At the dawn of the All Saints’ Day holidays, disruptions continue at French airports for the third day in a row. Fourteen regional airports were again targeted by bomb threats on Friday morning. Three were evacuated, according to consistent sources.
According to airport sources, 14 regional platforms are affected, two of which were evacuated, Bordeaux and Béziers. In addition to these two airports, Lille, Beauvais, Tarbes, Nantes, Brest, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Lyon-Bron, Pau, Nice, Biarritz and Rennes received threatening messages. This last airport was also the subject of an evacuation “as a precautionary measure”, then indicated the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine: “In order to remove doubt, the police and a dog technical team are on site. »
Threats by email
In Bordeaux, “today at 12:00 p.m. a new bomb threat once again forced us to evacuate the airport,” the installation confirmed on its website. For her part, a spokesperson for Lille airport confirmed to AFP the receipt of a threatening email. “We resolved doubts with the police services” and “there was no evacuation,” she stressed.
On the other hand, Beauvais airport refused to confirm any alert. “We are operating normally, there has been no evacuation,” an official told AFP. Nantes airport confirmed for its part that it had been the subject of a “threat of bomb threat” on Friday morning, like other airports and like Wednesday and Thursday. An inspection is underway but the airport has not been evacuated.
Around ten arrests
Thursday evening, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin mentioned 18 arrests in 48 hours in connection with these alerts, which also affect educational establishments or tourist places.
The government warned on Wednesday that each threat would be the subject of a complaint, with Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti denouncing “the little puppets who have fun with these threats, which are false in this case”. The criminal sanction can be up to two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.
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