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Adrien Deschepper
Published on
Oct 9, 2024 at 12:47 p.m.
; updated Oct 9, 2024 at 4:23 p.m.
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There were people and movement in front of the Saint-Paul Parknear Beauvais, in the Oise, this Tuesday October 8 2024. But the ride enthusiasts were replaced by emergency services, firefighters and even police who were present en masse with their vehicles at the entrance to the site.
An unusual event, which intrigued many motorists. Rest assured, it was only a training exercise. But a large-scale exercise!
A simulated attack
The exercise, organized by the Oise Prefecture, focused on the management of a “mass killing” with the simulation of an attack.
The different services, responsible for ensuring security or the judicial investigation, then worked hand in hand in conditions close to real, in this park which thought big for the Halloween season.
To “test the security devices”
Among the 350 people mobilized in all, some played the role of terrorists and victims.
This scenario was based on an attack by several armed terrorists. Around 350 people played this exercise: 150 false victims and 200 gendarmes, firefighters, deminers, SAMU personnel and volunteers from civil security associations.
Note that psychiatrists, nurses and even psychologists have also joined the police and emergency services, whose mission is to take care of shocked people.
“The exercises make it possible to put into practice, during realistic scenarios, the provisions provided for in the intervention and risk prevention plans,” underlines the Oise Prefecture.
As for the inhabitants of the commune of St. Paulthey had been warned in advance by a message received on their smartphone, sent by the town hall, indicating thata “training” would take place at the amusement park “to test safety features and improve our responsiveness in the event of a real emergency”.
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