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Swiss woman injured in Paris is flown home

A Swiss woman injured in the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night has been repatriated to Switzerland.

Published: 17 November 2015 08:57 CET
Swiss woman injured in Paris is flown home
The injured woman was repatriated by air ambulance. Photo: Rega/File

The woman, whose name has not been released, was flown by Swiss air-ambulance service Rega to hospital in Switzerland on Monday afternoon, according to news agency NXP.

Rega told the media that the repatriation was carried out “thanks to the good collaboration between the doctors treating her at the scene and the Swiss ambassador to France”.

The extent of the woman’s injuries has not been released to the media.

No Swiss citizens were killed in the multiple attacks which took the lives of at least 129 people and injured hundreds of others.

Meanwhile, many Swiss residents with tickets booked for travel to Paris this week have cancelled their bookings “out of fear or respect for the mourning period”, according to news agency ATS.

Three major Swiss travel companies – Kuoni, Hotelplan and Tui – are offering free cancellations or exchanges on bookings for Paris this week, while Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is also offering ticket refunds.

“Unless otherwise stated, customers can return their tickets for Paris and receive a refund on the ticket price,” SBB spokesman Reto Shärli told ATS on Monday.  

The Swiss foreign office is not advising against travel to Paris, where a number of museums and shops are set to reopen on Tuesday. Disneyland Paris will follow suit on Wednesday.

CRIME

Hoax bomb threats against French airports ‘traced to Swiss email’

Repeated bomb threats against dozens of French airports which led to evacuations and flight cancellations have been 'traced to an email address in Switzerland', according to French authorities.

Published: 23 October 2023 09:13 CEST
Hoax bomb threats against French airports 'traced to Swiss email'

More than 70 bomb threats have been made against French airports in the past week, leading to evacuations at dozens of airports and at least 130 flights cancelled.

Most of the alerts were triggered by emails warning of a bomb in the airport – more than 70 such emails have been received by airports around the country such as Toulouse, Bordeaux, Paris Beauvais, Marseille and dozens of smaller airports – including Basel-Mulhouse on the Franco-Swiss border. 

On Sunday French Transport Minister Clément Beaune said that “almost all of the threats have been traced to the same email address, situated in Switzerland”.

He added: “Since Wednesday, it is almost always the same email address that is used, located outside the European Union, in Switzerland”.

He called on hosting sites to help the French authorities, saying: “Everyone has a responsibility, including the platforms and social networks, not to support this kind of attack and to cooperate as quickly as possible with the French civil aviation authorities and our justice system.”

In France, the maximum penalty for making a hoax bomb threat is two years in jail and a €30,000 fine.

As well as airport evacuations and flight disruption, French tourist sites have also been hit with bomb hoaxes – the Palace of Versailles has been evacuated seven times in the past week.

It comes in the context of a tense situation in France as the country raised its terror alert to maximum after an apparent Islamist attack on Friday, October 13th in which a teacher was killed and two others wounded.

Security at large events such as the Rugby World Cup matches has been stepped up. 

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