end of intervention at Lille Europe station, evacuated for terrorist risk in a TGV

The paralysis lasted a little over two hours. Shortly after 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday July 19, a police operation was triggered around a TGV arriving at Lille Europe station, the Nord prefecture confirmed to franceinfo. The area around this Hauts-de-France station, which includes shops, was completely locked by security cordons, before the police put an end to this intervention, a little before noon.

Contacted by franceinfo, the Nord prefecture confirmed a “operation of the police services concerning a lifting of doubt at the Lille Europe station”. For its part, the SNCF adds that Lille Flandres station, another terminal in downtown Lille, was also briefly evacuated before being reopened. “Part of the (rail) traffic is transferred to this station”specifies the group to franceinfo.

The operation would have been triggered after the report of a threatening individual on board this TGV Paris-Lille, learned France Télévisions from police sources. The Raid would have carried out identity checks wagon by wagon, while a demining team intervened, according to these same sources. Several bus lines circulating in the area remain diverted. The Lille-Europe metro station is “again served by the metro and tram”said on Twitter the Ilévia network manager. For its part, the SNCF confirms to francecfo a reopening of the station and a gradual resumption of traffic.