A security perimeter was established this Sunday evening by the police and SUGE, railway security so that no one could enter the Poitiers SNCF station.
She was evacuated around 8pm after a suspicious package was discovered in the station hall where calls over the microphone to find the owner of the abandoned suitcase were in vain. Train services also had to be stopped.
Eight hundred travelers arrested in detention trains
“There was a TGV number 8393 that arrived in Poitiers whose passengers were evacuated via the footbridge”.SNCF indicates the communications department.
“The other two TGVs with service to Poitiers brought their passengers down to Angouleme, we will then see how to bring them back to Poitiers.”
Five trains were kept at detention points while the situation was resolved, with eight hundred passengers staying in their trains.
After discussions with the police, the intervention of the bomb squad was decided. They will arrive around 11 pm.
A situation that meant intervention that travelers who were to take one of the evening trains to La Rochelle or Paris waited, wondering whether they should prepare to spend the night in a hotel or not.
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