PARIS: France, already on its highest security alert, is to boost security at airports around the capital and on trains after a wave of bomb hoaxes, the transport minister said yesterday.
Security patrols at Paris airports will be increased by 40% and staff at the national railway company SNCF will be reinforced by 20% in addition to extra police patrolling railway stations, minister Clement Beaune said on France Inter.
France has been on its highest alert since October 13 after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher in the city of Arras in northern France.
Alongside the heightened risk, there were “people who are playing with fear”, he said, referring to the wave of fake bomb alerts. | Reuters…
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