The country is on maximum terrorist alert after the Islamist attack that killed a teacher at Gambetta secondary school in Arras.
France evacuated seven airports, including Biarritz, this morning due to bomb threats, in a context of maximum alert due to the risk of attacks in the country due to the crisis in the Middle East and after last Friday’s jihadist attack. school in the city of Arras.
The Basque airport received a bomb threat and was evacuated at noon on Wednesday. According to the message from the Prefect of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
According to broadcaster France Info, the evacuations also affected the airports of Nice, Beauvais, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille and Nantes. The threats came via email.
Nice Airport indicated as normal”.
On the same social network, Lille airport announced shortly after 11 a.m. that it was evacuating its facilities due to “a bomb threat.”
In recent days, these types of situations have multiplied in museums, stations and schools.
The Palace of Versailles was evacuated on Tuesday, something that already happened on Saturday, when the Louvre in Paris was also emptied of visitors and staff and also in the French capital the Gare de Lyon, one of the largest train stations.
On Monday morning, the Gambetta secondary school in Arras, where a teacher was stabbed to death by an Islamist terrorist, was also evacuated due to a new bomb threat, which also injured three other workers at the center.
Source: EITB
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