No lie in this Saturday, January 23 for many Rémois. A siren indeed sounded early in the morning. “It was around 9:30 am”, testifies this inhabitant of the Cathedral sector, who obviously did not stopwatch but assures that “it lasted a few minutes. Maybe after that it seemed very long to me, but I think we are not far from 10 minutes. It must have been the siren of the Marchandeau barracks, he imagines. It was really continuous while the warning sirens, logically, it works in rising and falling waves … “
On the side of the Town Hall, we want to be reassuring: “No major disaster requiring alerting the population has occurred in Reims. The continuous end-of-alert signal, heard this morning in Reims, results from the technical failure of one of the sirens installed on the buildings of public or private establishments. “
A few days ago, on January 11, in Châlons-en-Champagne, the population warning and information siren (SAIP) was accidentally triggered in the afternoon and had been heard throughout the town and neighboring communes. This time, it was a “manipulation error at the level of the Ministry of the Interior,” said Marne prefecture.
Three blows had been heard, immediately causing a confinement of the students within their schools (colleges, schools, high schools, Greta…) and a wave of calls in the town halls and with the emergency services of the territory.
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