Ten French airports faced new bomb threats on Thursday and five of them were evacuated, we learned from an airport source.
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The five facilities affected by evacuations are Bordeaux, Basel-Mulhouse, Tarbes, Pau and Bergerac, and only the latter was still there at 5:00 p.m., while the alarms in the others had been lifted, according to this source.
Other airports also received bomb threats but were not evacuated. These are Lyon Saint-Exupéry, Lyon-Bron, Marseille, Biarritz and Saint-Denis de la Réunion.
Despite these warnings, air traffic disruptions appear to be less, according to the online dashboard of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC), which, however, recorded average delays of 20 minutes in Marseille at the end of the day.
Last week, nearly 70 false bomb warnings were targeted at French airports, sent from “almost always the same email address in Switzerland,” French Transport Minister Clément Beaune said on Sunday.
In total, “more than 60 investigations have been launched at all locations,” he said.
France has raised the alert level of the Vigipirate plan against attacks to the highest level since the murder of teacher Dominique Bernard on October 13 in his high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) by a young person accused of Islamist radicalization elevated.