London's Gatwick airport evacuated for French national carrying two firearms

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Sat, 14 Nov 2015 23:15 UTC

The airport's North Terminal was evacuated after a man carrying a firearm approached a check-in desk, police said.

A French national carrying firearms was arrested at London's Gatwick airport, police said Saturday. According to the Metro newspaper, the man approached a check-in desk carrying two guns. Police and airport staff pursued the man and he was found to have another gun strapped to his body when arrested a short time after.

LIVE Bomb squad arrive to deal with suspicious package at Gatwick (@brightonargus) https://t.co/GlAdQUVvNe pic.twitter.com/tJly4ixIuP
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) November 14, 2015

Earlier in the day Sussex Police said the terminal was being evacuated "for the protection at the public."

Due to an incident - the North Terminal has been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Extra staff on-site looking after passenger welfare
— Gatwick Airport LGW (@Gatwick_Airport) November 14, 2015

At 6:10 PM London time the Gatwick airport said on Twitter the North Terminal was re-opened.

The evacuation came hours after terrorist attacks in Paris which claimed the lives of at least 129 people.

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Ruth · 2015-11-14T23:46:52Z

Weird..... and why?? Surely it should be obvious to people everywhere that terrorist attacks don't happen via airports (now) unless they have airport security and air traffic control on board. It makes traveling by aircraft very difficult for any potential 'terrorist'. For a pretend one it might 'make a statement', I suppose. Something like 'this is what you're supposed to believe'.

I'm speculating here, that the 'agents' concerned responsible for the terrorist attack in Paris, know full well that you can't target too many places or people at once or the average person will begin to 'smell a rat' and not believe anything the authorities say without questioning it. It's also a reasonable excuse to get the average person demanding extra 'security' at airports.

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