Basel Airport has had to be evacuated four times in the space of a few days due to bomb threats. This always meant that flight operations had to be interrupted for several hours. Everyone had to leave the terminal and wait outside for the all-clear. Unfortunately, such bomb threats, which almost always turn out to be false alarms and therefore harmless, do occur, but Basel has set a sad but also quite embarrassing record, at least in the recent past. In aviation, the principle of "safety first" applies, but with such frequent threats, which always turn out to be harmless because the police find absolutely nothing dangerous, there is a completely different risk. At some point, passengers, as well as employees and officials, no longer take any threats seriously. Yes, everyone out again, we already know the "exercise" from the three previous "actions" this week. Why go out into the cold? The question is quite justified: How can it be that the airport and the French authorities (the Euro Airport is located on French territory) allow themselves to be made a fool of in this way by obvious pranksters? The security situation is currently tense due to the wars in Israel and Ukraine, but in France of all places, other regions are taking a different approach. Flight operations are not stopped immediately everywhere. At other French airports, the situation is first assessed covertly in civilian clothes and evacuated only if it is necessary or absolutely unclear. The police decide, not the airport operator. In Basel, on the other hand, every email, anonymous phone call or social media post seems to be met with harsh responses.
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