Several airports in France evacuated due to bomb threat

Several airports in France, including those in Lille, Nantes, Bordeaux and Montpellier, were evacuated again this Thursday due to new bomb threats, after the Government decided last week to raise the anti-terrorist alert following the knife attack in a institute of the city of Arras.

On Wednesday, 17 airfields received some type of alert and, of them, 15 were temporarily evacuated. The Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, has referred to “jokes in bad taste” and recalled that this type of false threats can lead to sentences of up to two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.

The airports affected this Thursday have spread warning messages on their social networks to confirm the evacuations and, in some cases, such as Lille, have openly spoken of a “bomb alert”, and shortly afterwards proclaim in the same way “the end of the alert” and the “progressive reopening” of the facilities.

The prefecture of Herault has reported the deployment of security forces at the Montpellier airport, where a team of bomb squads has even gone “to clear up doubts.”