The airports of Lille, Nantes, Bordeaux and Montpellier They were evacuated this Thursday due to bomb threats, a day after 17 airfields had to be evacuated for the same reasonwhich also forced dozens of schools and the tourist Palace of Versailles to be emptied of the public.

Law enforcement agencies are intervening in these airports to clear doubts about the real existence of bombs following the official protocol, although the Government does not give much credence to these threats.

They occur in a particular context, with the country in its maximum terrorist alert level after the murder last Friday of a teacher at a high school in Arras, in the north of the country, stabbed by a jihadist of Russian origin who claimed to act on behalf of the Islamic State.

While the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupont-Moretti, promised “punish” the “clowns” that are causing these problems, Transport, Clément Baume stated that their actions “are not jokes, they are crimes.” This Wednesday, bomb threats affected 17 airports, of which 15 had to be evacuated, forcing the suspension of 130 flights and causing significant delays in others.