Seven French airports evacuated after 'threats of attack'
Airports across France were evacuated on Wednesday, October 18, after emailed "threats of attack", a police source told Agence France-Presse (AFP), the latest in a series of similar alerts. The evacuations at Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais airport near Paris would allow authorities to "clear up any doubts" whether the threats are real, the source said, writes Le Monde.
A spokeswoman for Strasbourg airport in eastern France also said the site was being evacuated after a "threatening email." The Palace of Versailles, a major tourist attraction outside Paris, was also evacuated on Wednesday, the third time since Saturday for bomb disposal teams to check the site.
France is on high alert following Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel and Friday's fatal stabbing of a teacher in the northern city of Arras by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group. A second police source said that Nice, Lyon and Lille airports had resumed normal activity around midday.
