The doubt must be removed even if fortunately it has only been false bomb threats so far. But the authorities promise to “file a complaint each time, we will not let anything go,” commented Clément Beaune on LCI. The Minister for Transport reported a “total of 100 alerts in French airports, a little less in recent days, precisely because there is this very firm position”, since October 18.
At the Gare de Lyon in Paris, an individual was arrested and legal proceedings are underway, the minister said, adding that there had also been a few cases of attempted cyberattacks.
Double the amount of abandoned luggage
In addition to bomb threats, “we have almost doubled the number of reports of luggage abandoned in train stations and airports,” added the minister.
France has raised the alert level of the Vigipirate plan to the maximum against attacks since the assassination on October 13 of teacher Dominique Bernard in his high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) by a young person accused of Islamist radicalization.