Several buildings in Paris were evacuated this Friday, including the Montparnasse Tower and the Sciences Po Paris faculty, after receiving several bomb threats. As police sources have confirmed to several French media, including the BFM network and Le Figarothe threats arrived simultaneously by email. Details have not been released and the investigation is ongoing. The alert also involved the Eiffel Tower and , which have not been evacuated.
The prefecture of Paris has sent teams to the Montparnasse Tower and the Sciences Po faculty and has carried out a search and preventive evacuation of these spaces, although without finding anything suspicious. “A bomb alert has been received in several places in the capital,” a police source confirmed to the public broadcaster France Télévision, without specifying much more.
Another police source informed the newspaper Le Figaro that around six in the afternoon a first report was received about the presence of a possible explosive device that could be found in various parts of the capital. At around nine thirty at night, the first checks carried out at Sciences Po Paris had revealed nothing.
The Bataclán room, in which 130 people died, was closed this Friday. Nor has it been considered necessary to evacuate Montparnasse station or the Eiffel Tower, which closes to the public at 11 p.m. In recent months, similar bomb threats have been received at the headquarters of France Télévision and also that of the BFMTV network. France is on a high terrorist alert level.
