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A loud roar, similar to an explosion, resounded this afternoon in Paris and caused alarm among the residents of the French capital, reported AFP. Numerous calls overwhelmed the emergency phone lines and the police came out with an official statement that there was no explosion.
“The roar was caused by a fighter who crossed the sound barrier,” wrote the prefecture police on Twitter, urging citizens “not to obstruct emergency lines with calls.”
Very loud noise was heard in Paris and the Paris region. There is no explosion, it is a fighter plane that has passed through the wall of sound.
Don’t overcrowd the emergency lines!– Police prefecture (@prefpolice) September 30, 2020
The fighter, which broke the sound barrier over Paris, was sent to escort a passenger plane that lost contact with the control tower, Reuters reports.
The loud noise also shocked the tennis players at the current Roland Garros Grand Slam tournament. Some of the tournament matches were interrupted, even for seconds. A video of Stan Wawrinka and Dominik Kopfer’s meeting, showing the two’s shame after the mighty thunder in the sky, quickly gained popularity on social media.
Parisians have been especially sensitive to the issue following a series of terrorist attacks in recent years. In 2015 alone, 12 people were killed in an assassination attempt on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and a few months later, Islamic State extremists killed 130 people in the Bataklan concert hall, after which three of the attackers blew themselves up. . during a friendly soccer match between France and Germany at the Stade de France.
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