A scene worthy of a disaster movie. This Sunday, the Faidherbe-Chaligny metro station, on line 8, was evacuated around 8:45 p.m. According to LCI, the police were informed that a person had left a box on the stairs of the station.
Collected by an agent, the package is brought to an RATP premises. The agent then proceeded to open the box and his discovery was most disturbing. A dozen test tubes stamped “VIRUS” were inside.
Anti-Covid revealers
Faced with such a threat, the station was closed to the public and the central laboratory of the judicial police was dispatched to the scene, accompanied by the Paris firefighters and CBRN (Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical) technicians.
According to LCI, the test tubes contained anti-Covid-19 test indicators, the provenance of which is still unknown. RATP traffic was able to resume around 11 p.m.