Bomb Alert at France's Calais-Fréthun Station Delays Eurostar Trains Before Being Cleared
A bomb alert was declared on the morning of November 12 at Calais-Fréthun station in northern France. The Pas-de-Calais prefecture said on social media that an alert was under way at the station, checks were being carried out, and traffic nearby could be affected; French reports said the alert was triggered by an unattended bag found at the station.
Eurostar, the international high-speed rail operator, said that at the request of the French authorities its trains were temporarily unable to pass through the station, delaying several services to and from London St Pancras, including morning trains from St Pancras to Brussels and from Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras. Rail traffic between Calais and Boulogne was also suspended in both directions for a time. Eurostar trains have not stopped at Calais-Fréthun since 2020, but London-Paris services pass through it.
The prefecture announced in a second post less than two hours later that the situation had been resolved. National rail operator SNCF said train services resumed later in the morning after the gendarmerie authorized their restart.
The alert came amid a wave of bomb threats across Europe in recent weeks: around 6,300 schools in Italy, along with schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland, have received bomb-threat emails, and supermarkets and blood banks in several countries were hit by cyberattacks earlier. It was not immediately clear whether the Calais alert was linked to any of the previous threats.
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(Source: Reuters)
Source: Reuters
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Photo: 图：法国加来-弗雷坦站站房（资料图）。照片：CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Calais-Fréthun station in northern France (file photo). CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
