The affected locations are Lille, Lyon (Bron), Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais. No Paris airport, neither Orly nor Charles de Gaulle, was impacted.
Six airports were evacuated in France by “threats of attacks” received by email, a police source told AFP.
The airports affected are those of Lille, Lyon (Bron), Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais, specified this source. No Parisian airport, nor that of orly nor that of Charles de Gaullehe looked shocked.
France is on alert “emergency attack” since the murder on Friday of a teacher in an Islamist attack. Since then, bomb warnings have multiplied.
The police source stressed that they verify threats at airports
The General Directorate of Civil Aviation confirmed “bomb alerts” and terminal evacuations in Lille, Lyon, Toulouse and Beauvais, without being able to give more details.
In Nice (southeast)“there was only one suspicious package alert, something common, which forced a security perimeter to be established, but everything returned to normal,” the airport said.
At the business aerodrome Bron“doubts were dispelled and traffic resumed,” the management stated.
In Lille“the terminal was evacuated around 10:30 a.m.,” according to a spokeswoman, and three flights that were due to land between 11:05 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. were diverted.
Source: Ambito
