Basel-Mulhouse Airport Evacuated for “Security Reasons”, Traffic Resumes Midday

Air traffic resumed at midday on Friday, July 26, at Basel-Mulhouse airport, after a bomb alert that led to the evacuation of the terminal in the morning, the Franco-Swiss platform announced on its website.

“The airport is open again and flight operations are gradually resuming”Euroairport said. Basel-Mulhouse airport had been evacuated for “security reasons”the platform had announced, while the rail network is already very disrupted in France following attacks on SNCF infrastructure. At the end of last year, the terminal had been the target of numerous bomb alerts, which had led to the evacuation of the terminal each time.

Numerous bomb threats led to the evacuation of airports in France following the Hamas attack on October 7 in Israel and the assassination in France on October 13 of teacher Dominique Bernard in his high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais). It is the third largest airport in Switzerland after Zurich and Geneva, and one of the most important in the provinces of France.