The highest level of the Vigipirate plan has been activated. And security will be reinforced in public transport throughout France, Transport Minister Clément Beaune announced this Monday. “Reinforced vigilance after the passage into Vigipirate emergency attack: tracking abandoned luggage, more frequent patrols, alert messages to call everyone to be vigilant… We will act even more in the coming days,” wrote the minister on the social network (ex-Twitter) without further details.
The minister indicated that he had gathered in the afternoon “transport operators from Ile-de-France” with Valérie Pécresse, president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the organizing authority for Ile-de-France transport. “and throughout France, to strengthen our security”.
Meeting with French public transport stakeholders
Among the participants, were represented at this meeting, the SNCF, the RATP, the Union of French Airports (UAF), the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC), Aéroports de Paris (ADP), the Union of public and rail transport (UTP), the National Federation of Passenger Transport (coaches), specified a ministerial source.
The government activated the attack emergency level of the Vigipirate system on Friday, the highest following the murder of Dominique Bernard, a French teacher in a high school in Arras, stabbed by a radicalized former student.