Bomb threat at French train station disrupts Eurostar trains; Delays up to 90 minutes

A bomb threat at a train station in northern France has disrupted Eurostar services. Trains running through the Calais-Fréthun station have been delayed by up to an hour, including at least three trains on the Amsterdam-London route.

The French authorities halted train traffic at the Calais-Fréthun station at 9:40 a.m., reporting that they were investigating a “bomb alert.” Train traffic restarted at 11:18 a.m. “The situation has been resolved. Rail traffic is gradually resuming,” the local police wrote on X.

The station shutdown impacted not only domestic trains, but also international services. Eurostar runs between Calais in France and Folkestone in the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel.

On its website, Eurostar reported delays of 30 to 60 minutes. But the site also showed one train from Amsterdam to London was delayed for nearly 90 minutes somewhere between Lille and London. Two trains from London to Amsterdam were delayed by up to 75 minutes. The site also shows a small number of issues between Amsterdam and Paris.

The bomb threat at the train station in France comes on the heels of similar threats targeting dozens of European flights last week, including two KLM flights, one from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv and one from Prague to Amsterdam.

According to intelligence experts, these threats, compared to cyberattacks on refrigeration systems in European supermarkets and blood banks, appear to be Russia ramping up its hybrid war on European NATO members.