Paris: Police gave the all-clear on Monday following an earlier bomb alert in the northern French city of Lille, with no explosives found following checks.
The police department for the Hauts-de-France region added on Monday that it was lifting a security cordon it had earlier placed around a school in Lille, which had been the subject of the bomb alert.
Local media reported that a bomb squad team and sniffer dogs had been on the scene.
