Wifes bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport

July 27, 2016 23:17

A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday (July 27), after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border.

Yesterday in the evening, a woman called Swiss customs at Geneva airport. She said that today a person carrying a bomb would be in the French sector of the airport, the Geneva prosecutors office said in a statement.

The Swiss authorities traced the number to Annecy in France, some 45kms from Geneva, where French police raided an address. They found a woman who admitted to having made the call and explained that she wanted thereby to prevent her husband from leaving, the statement said.

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