Blue flashing lights in the rainy night. Access to Argenton-sur-Creuse station remained blocked for several hours by the Indre gendarmes. Around 4 p.m., Tuesday January 7, 2025, a train coming from Limoges was stopped at the platform after an alert reporting “a suspicious individual who made threatening remarks”specifies the prefect of Indre, Thibault Lanxade, who went to the scene.
“His luggage removed from the trains”
The nature of the comments made by this passenger was not communicated, but, according to the prefect, all the travelers were immediately evacuated and the suspect's luggage “separated from the oars”. At 5:50 p.m., a team from La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) took their x-rays in order to detect the possible presence of explosives. The said luggage turned out to be harmless and the station was able to reopen to the public at 7:05 p.m. The investigation had just opened and while awaiting the first elements, the public prosecutor, David Marcat, did not wish to comment on the matter. 'interpellation.
Ten trains disrupted
Around fifty soldiers from the Indre gendarmerie group were mobilized across the entire system, indicates Colonel Julien Faugère, who notes “the very high responsiveness of the gendarmerie forces”. Around twenty students training at the Châteauneuf vocational high school were inside the train and their return home was supervised by the prefecture. Ten trains were disrupted by these control operations.
