On Thursday morning, a total of ten French airports received new bomb threats. The airports of Bordeaux, Basel-Mulhouse, Tarbes, Pau and Bergerac were evacuated, the first four have now been reopened. A bomb threat was also received at five other airports on French territory, but no evacuation was carried out.
The French-Swiss Basel-Mulhouse airport confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that it had been evacuated and that flight movements had been temporarily halted. The airport had already been evacuated on Tuesday, just like three other French airports, including Bordeaux.
Last week, nearly seventy false bomb threats were sent targeting French airports, “almost all sent from the same email address located in Switzerland,” French Transport Minister Clément Beaune said on Sunday. More than sixty investigations were launched.
The highest threat level has been in force in France since a teacher was murdered by a radicalized youth in Arras, northern France, on October 13.