Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse, Beauvais, and Strasbourg airports in France were evacuated on Wednesday following bomb threats, with the Palace of Versailles–a major tourist attraction on the outskirts of Paris–seeing its third evacuation in five days, reported several local news outlets.
A spokesperson for Strasbourg airport in eastern France said that the site was being evacuated after a “threatening email.”
Nice airport tweeted on X (formerly Twitter) that the action was merely a precautionary measure triggered by an abandoned baggage item in Terminal 1, which required the establishment of a security perimeter.
“The situation has now returned to normal,” concluded the news brief.
Toulouse airport also tweeted that the airport had experienced a bomb threat which disrupted its operations, adding that the terminal was “evacuated” and “air traffic was interrupted for an indefinite period.”
At Nantes airport, a thousand people were evacuated, according to the prefecture.
In Lille, the terminal was evacuated at around 10:30. The airport later tweeted that the prefecture gave the green light to staff and passengers to return to the airport.
“Following an anonymous threat received by several French airports, the airport is being evacuated and the passengers monitored by our teams until the concern is eliminated by State Services,” reported the Beauvais airport on its official Facebook page.
France is currently at its highest state of counter-terrorism alert after a teacher was fatally stabbed by an alleged ISIS fanatic at a school in Arras on Friday, with the site then evacuated due to a false bomb threat on Monday.