2023-11-08 19:49:02
After a first bomb threat this Tuesday morning at theSainte-Union school in Tournai, a second alert was launched in the followingnoon in the city on the site of the Notre-Dame hospital. The author of the second alert was arrested. In both cases, these were false alarms.
This Tuesday around 4:30 p.m. it is the Notre-Dame de Tournai hospital, dependent on Where, the Picardy Wallonia Hospital Center, which was the target of a bomb threat. The neighborhood was quickly secured and the police services of the Tournaisis area, supported by a canine team from the federal police, intervened. “The hospital was not evacuated. The searches were stopped around 5:45 p.m. The author of the call, an adult, was identified and arrested by the police”indicated shortly following 6:00 p.m. Paul-Olivier Delannois (PS), the mayor of Tournai.
The author of the call, a patient in the hospital’s psychiatric department, used a mobile phone which was quickly traced by the police, Belga learned from a good source.
The Tournai public prosecutor’s office did not wish to communicate concerning this arrest nor the facts which took place in the morning. Tuesday morning, a first bomb threat indeed required the evacuation of theSainte-Unio schooln, located along the Chaussée de Douai in Tournai. In the process, the nearby school ofFEED was also evacuated. All the students and teaching staff were grouped together in the sports hall of the city of Tournai, located regarding a hundred meters from the two institutions. “The search of the premises also turned out to be negative”, indicated the mayor of Tournai. After the search of the premises, the students of the two schools were able to return to their respective buildings.
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