French Transport Minister Clément Beaune has revealed that the series of false bomb threats at French airports came from a single email address located in Switzerland.
Dozens of false bomb threats have disrupted French airports in recent days. The Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, seems to have certainty regarding the origin of many of them. The government takes the opportunity to call – once again – on platforms and social networks to collaborate with the authorities, to put an end to these alerts, which in addition to the disruptions, have a high cost for public accounts, businesses and the passengers concerned. .
Bomb threats that many believe came from a Swiss email
So what have we learned from Clément Beaune? Guest this Sunday on the show Political issues, the Minister of Transport revealed that France had been, in the space of a few days, the target of nearly 70 false bomb threats at its airports in recent days. He indicated to our colleagues from World and of France Inter that most of these alerts came from an email address located in Switzerland, which is problematic because it thus escapes European Union sanctions.
The minister took the opportunity to urge online platforms and social networks to cooperate more closely with the French authorities, to try to resolve what could become a problem. He recalled that such alerts unnecessarily mobilize security forces, sometimes for hours, and lead to the evacuation of airports, with one security problem potentially leading to another.
But you’ve been following the news, so you know that airports aren’t the only ones affected. The Palace of Versailles, for example, was evacuated for the seventh time in nine days on Sunday October 22, also against a backdrop of a bomb threat.
The Minister Delegate in charge of Transport is very angry, by those he describes as “major delinquents”
A suspect was arrested for an alert issued by telephone, in the case of the former residence of Louis XIV and Louis XVI. The other alerts were published on a government website. Regarding the authors of these false alarms, Clément Beaune is obviously not gentle. For him, more than little jokers, they are above all “ big idiots or even big delinquents “. But what pushes them to act like this?
The motivation of these individuals varies, from making a bad joke to seeking notoriety within the hacker community. The minister in any case warns against the character “ extremely dangerous » of these alerts. He even asks that each airport now automatically file a complaint, for each alert. More than 60 investigations have also been launched in this regard throughout the country.
This is an incident which reveals the interest, the necessity one could say, of a response on a larger scale, to counter these incidents which disrupt airport operations and endanger public safety. Cooperation between governments and online platforms could prove crucial.
Source : The world
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