A teenager, soon to be an adult, suspected of having made a bad hoax to the gendarmes, will be tried in a juvenile court. He is accused of having made the police believe, on May 6, that there was a bomb in a TGV connecting Montpellier to Paris. Immediately alerted, the gendarmes of the Gard stopped two trains, at the Nîmes station, in Manduel, and the 1,040 passengers were evacuated while waiting for a search to be carried out.
For two hours, the soldiers, supported by a canine team specializing in the search for explosives, combed through the oars. At the same time, the gendarmes managed to identify and arrest the young man, a Norman, suspected of being at the origin of the call which led to the establishment of this huge barnum.
Malicious calls to Montpellier, too
The suspect first had “confused explanations”, and first explained “having relayed a video he would have seen on Twitter”. Before admitting to having lied, without thinking that his hoax could have such consequences on travelers and law enforcement.
In addition, in Montpellier (Hérault), on Wednesday, an individual, who has not been identified, called the police, indicating that he was holding his wife, and that he was ready to blow everything up, indicates Free lunch. On Saturday, another call had mentioned that another family was in danger. In the end, the searches yielded nothing, specifies the regional daily.