Six airports were evacuated in France this Wednesday due to “threats of attacks” received by email, a police source told AFP.
The affected airports are Lille, Lyon (Bron), Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais. Paris, Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports were not affected.
France has been on alert since the killing of a teacher in an Islamist attack on Tuesday. Since then, the country has registered several bomb threats.
The police source reported that threats at airports were being verified.
The General Directorate of Civil Aviation confirmed “bomb warnings” and evacuations at the terminals in Lille, Lyon, Toulouse and Beauvais, without revealing details.
In Nice, in the southeast, “there was only one suspicious package alert, something common, which forced the establishment of a security perimeter, but everything returned to normal,” the airport reported.
At Bron’s commercial airport, “doubts have been resolved and traffic has resumed,” the local government said.
In Lille, “the terminal was evacuated at 10:30 a.m. (local time),” a spokeswoman said, and three flights were diverted.
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Source: DN
