A Paris-bound Air France Boeing 777 carrying almost 500 people was forced to make an emergency landing in Mombasa, Kenya on Sunday after a passenger informed the flight staff about the suspicious object found inside a toilet.
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Air France CEO Frederic Gagey described the object at a press conference Sunday as a cardboard box containing papers, with “something like a kitchen timer” inside it.
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Border guards at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris had earlier on Monday detained the 58-year-old retired policeman after he arrived back in France.
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France is on high alert after the Paris attacks in November and has put in place extra security precautions.
The arrest had been made during an investigation which was prompted after a lawsuit had been filed on Monday by Air France claiming reckless endangerment.
It is not clear whether the suspect had also been questioned in Kenya.
Stringer/AP Officials talk to passengers who were onboard the Air France plane that was forced to land in Mombasa, Kenya, on Sunday. It does not name a particular perpetrator, but leaves it to investigators to determine who might eventually stand trial.
Nkaissery said that the Sundays’ incident was a major scare and a threat to the county’s tourism sector which is slowly recovering from hardships of insecurity and terror incidence across the country.
The hoax was the fourth against Air France in recent weeks. The 459 passengers as well as the 14 crew members were evacuated safely from the plane.
One passenger is now in police custody for his suspected involvement in planting a fake bomb, the public prosecution service in the Parisian suburb of Bobigny confirmed on Monday.
“I really admired the crew, because they thought it was a real bomb and they remained very serene”, said Antoine Dupont of the northern city of Lille.
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He said the “deduction” was that the item had been placed in a toilet cupboard by one of the passengers and said the bomb scare appeared to be the result of a “bad joke”.
