Bomb alerts and evacuations at the Palace of Versailles, for the fifth day, and at 15 French airports

The bomb alerts that have been repeated for days in France led this Friday to the evacuation of the Palace of Versailles for the fifth consecutive time since Saturday, and to total or partial evacuations of fifteen airports throughout the country.

In its X account, the Palace of Versailles, one of the great tourist attractions in France with thousands of visitors every day, justified this new closure shortly after noon “for security reasons” and announced that it will reopen “since they have carry out the verifications”.

Since Saturday, the first day that its rooms were emptied due to a bomb alert, the same thing was repeated on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

On the other hand, a spokesperson for the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) indicated that during this morning bomb warnings were also received at the airports of Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Beauvais, Lille, Rennes, Tarbes, Nantes, Béziers, Pau, Brest, Lyon-Bron, Chambery and Carcassonne.

Not all of them were completely evacuated, said the spokesperson, who specified that no flights were canceled.. It is the third day in a row that a long list of airports were evacuated due to bomb alerts. On Wednesday, that affected 17, with evacuations in 15 and the suspension of 130 flights.

These threats continue to proliferate despite warning messages from the Government, which through the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupont-Moretti, promised to “punish” the “clowns” who are the authors.

The head of Transport, Clément Beaune, insisted that these false accusations are crimes that will be punished and that can lead to penalties of up to two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.