New false bomb threat in the streets of the capital. A security perimeter was deployed this Saturday early afternoon in the La Motte-Picquet district, in the 15th arrondissement, after a call received by the McDonald's restaurant reporting an explosive device inside. interior of the establishment, we learned from Mayor Philippe Goujon. Traffic was blocked for pedestrians and vehicles on several axes around the fast-food restaurant located at the corner of Rue du Commerce and Boulevard de Grenelle.
According to Philippe Goujon, the alert was given around 1 p.m. “The perimeter was deployed over an area of 100 to 200 meters around the restaurant,” specifies the elected official. Officials from the national and municipal police as well as soldiers from Operation Sentinel are present to ensure the security of the premises.
“We can’t take the metro. We are informed that it is a bomb threat but we do not know more at the moment,” explained Étienne, 25, stuck at avenue de La Motte-Picquet, around 2 p.m. On line 6, “traffic is interrupted between Trocadéro and Raspail and will resume around 4 p.m.,” RATP announced on
According to him, it “appears that there were several simultaneous false alarms in various locations”. An investigation has been opened to identify the author(s) of these calls. “There have been a lot of them lately,” laments Philippe Goujon. Fortunately, they are fanciful but this requires a major security device each time. » On December 11, it was the Arc de Triomphe (8th century) which had to be evacuated after a man called the police on a hidden number to threaten to explode the monument. After an hour, the device was lifted.
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