Woman calls in bomb threat to stop partner from going to Marseille-Troyes

Marseille’s win over Troyes on Sunday night saw the Champions League chasers return to winning ways at home, and leapfrog Lens into second place thanks to a double from winter signing Vitinha. The build-up, though, saw police forces called into action over a potential bomb threat.  

Regional outlet La Dépêche report that a 23-year-old woman based in Toulouse had called police in Marseille to claim that her partner was on his way to Marseille on a bus with a bomb in his possession. The call, as it turned out, was a last-ditch attempt to stop him from going to the Stade Vélodrome to watch the match.

When police arrived at her home in the western suburbs of Toulouse, they quickly found out that she had lied in order to stop the bus from making it to Marseille. She will now appear in court in May for the hoax call. She reportedly told an investigator that “he wanted to go support Marseille, but I wanted him to stay with me.”

Her partner, meanwhile, made it to the game, and was in the Vélodrome stands when police tried to contact him on suspicion that he was carrying a bomb. On Monday, he was made to explain that he had no intention of carrying out an attack and had no explosives on him.