French airports again hit by fake bomb threats
AFP | Paris
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At least 14 French airports received bomb threats yesterday, with at least eight evacuated, in the latest series of false alarms that have rattled the country over the past week.
Most of France’s major airports, with the exception of its two biggest in Paris, were temporarily evacuated on Wednesday, leading to at least 130 flight cancellations.
Yesterday, the evacuations were focused on small airports such as Brest, Carcassonne, Bordeaux and Montpellier. Aviation authority DGAC confirmed the bomb threats without giving a precise number, while several airports put out social media messages about the evacuations and checks by security forces.
France, which has large Jewish and Muslim populations, has been on high alert since Hamas’s assault on Israel and since a teacher was killed last week by an attacker who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group.
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