Toulouse airport (archive photo) Photo: REMY GABALDA / AFP
From BZ/dpa
The airports in Lille, Lyon and Toulouse in France were evacuated on Wednesday due to bomb threats.
In the morning, corresponding threats were received there, the broadcaster BFMTV reported, referring to the police. Lille airport also reported a bomb threat. An abandoned piece of luggage caused security forces to be called into action at Nice airport on Wednesday. The airport said operations are now back to normal.
Bomb threats have been increasing in France for several days, particularly against schools. So far, the police have not been able to discover anything unusual in any case. The Louvre in Paris was also affected by a false bomb alarm, and the Palace of Versailles even twice. It has not yet been possible to determine who is behind the threats.
In France, the highest of three alert levels has been in effect since the Islamist-motivated attack on teacher Dominique Bernard in Arras last Friday. Since then, the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre Museum in Paris have been evacuated twice following threats.
France is currently on the highest terror alert level after an Islamist-radicalized young man stabbed a teacher and injured three other people in a school in Arras on Friday. The attacker claimed responsibility for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia. He was overpowered and arrested by the police. There was also a bomb threat there before a memorial at the school on Monday.