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Ex-French policeman freed in Air France fake bomb search

The passenger was a former French policeman who retired eight years ago and was living on the island of Reunion, a French territory southwest of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, a spokesman for the French National Police told CNN.

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The homemade apparatus was discovered around midnight hidden in a lavatory cabinet behind a mirror where it was apparently placed during the approximately 11-hour flight to Paris from the island of Mauritius, said the airline’s CEO, Frederic Gagey.

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“The current state of the investigation does not justify continuing custody”, the prosecutor in Bobigny north of Paris told AFP, while a legal source said the suspect’s release did not mean he has been cleared of suspicion.

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And the airline has admitted a suspected time bomb on the plane was a cardboard box and a kitchen timer.

The hoax occurred as much of the world, particularly France, remains on high alert in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, among other incidents.

Airports are powerless to stop passengers from smuggling on board the kind of fake bombs that sparked this weekend’s major security alert on an Air France flight, flight safety experts have warned.

Gagey congratulated the crew for their cool-headed reaction to divert the plane to Moi International Airport.

Six passengers were being questioned, including the person who informed the crew about the device, said a Kenyan police official who is part of the investigation and who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

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“We thought we were going to die”, she said. “Because of the speed of the airplane going down, we thought we would crash in the sea”, said passenger Marine Gorlier of the French town of Melun after landing at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport. This is not the first time that Air France flights have been diverted due to bomb threats. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for those attacks and for downing a plane carrying Russian tourists out of Egypt in October. Instead, people were told the plane had a technical problem and would be landing in Kenya instead of Paris. “In this case I think the crew made a really rational decision”.

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