Paris: Six Schools Evacuated after Bomb Threat

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Police received several phone calls announcing six bombs hidden in Parisian establishments among the most prestigious …

There’s panic on Tuesday lunchtime in six Paris lycées.  Shortly before 11 am, an anonymous call alerting that parcel bombs had been hidden in the establishments of six Lycées in the capital, indicates the France Info, information confirmed to AFP by a police source.

The Lycées are Charlemagne, Fenelon, Montaigne, Cordorcet Henri-IV and Louis-le-Grand are concerned.

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The security forces decided the evacuation of students from the six establishments before being searched.  No suspicious package had been found for the moment, saysFrance Info.

“We were coming out of class when we were asked to regroup in the yard,” he told Suzanne, in prep school student at Fenelon. “After a while, it was dispersed in small groups, but we still do not have permission to leave the building,” before which police are stationed, she said.

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