A hoax bomb
threat which caused a scare at Geneva's airport was phoned in by a
woman who was trying to get revenge on her husband and his mistress, a
prosecutor says.
Police heightened security and treated the anonymous call as a serious threat in the wake of several terror attacks in Europe.
Prosecutors
said the woman later admitted to making a false bomb threat in which
she told Swiss customs a woman would be carrying a bomb in the French
sector of the airport, which straddles the Switzerland-France border.
Police officers set up roadblocks and conducted checks on cars at the entrance of Geneva's airport
Once passengers arrived at the terminal they underwent an additional identity checks by police
Swiss
authorities traced the phone number to the alpine town of Annecy in
France, around 28 miles from Geneva, where French police officers raided
an address under powers granted to them by the current state of
emergency following terror attacks in Paris and Nice.
Swiss
prosecutors said in a statement: 'They found a woman who admitted to
having made the call and explained that she wanted thereby to prevent
her husband from leaving.'
Geneva's Tribune newspaper reported that the woman phoned in the bogus threat because she wanted revenge on her husband and his mistress.
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