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Paris police search financial prosecutor's headquarters after threat

Angela Charlton (Associated Press)
Paris
Mon, March 20, 2017

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Paris police search financial prosecutor's headquarters after threat In this file photo, police officers, rescue workers, left, and soldiers patrol outside the Orly airport, south of Paris on March, 18, 2017. A man was shot dead after wrestling a soldier to the ground at Paris' Orly Airport and trying to take her rifle, officials said. No one else in the busy terminal was hurt, but thousands of travelers were evacuated and flights were diverted to the city's other airport. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Paris police searched the headquarters of the national financial prosecutor after a phone-in bomb threat but found no explosives.

A Paris police official says employees are being allowed to return to the building after explosives experts combed the site following the threat Monday. The prosecutor's office is in central Paris, near the Garnier Paris opera house.

The official, who wasn't authorized to be publicly named, says that empty bomb threats are a frequent occurrence in the French capital.

France remains under a state of emergency after a string of deadly Islamic extremist attacks.

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