{"id":2411637,"date":"2025-03-09T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paris-trains-stopped-after-unexploded-1000-lbs-wwii-bomb-discovered\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:28:26","slug":"paris-trains-stopped-after-unexploded-1000-lbs-wwii-bomb-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paris-trains-stopped-after-unexploded-1000-lbs-wwii-bomb-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Trains Stopped After Unexploded 1,000+ lbs. WWII Bomb Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparis-trains-stopped-after-unexploded-1000-lbs-wwii-bomb-discovered%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2411637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Travel across Europe\u200c faced \u200dsignificant disruptions following the discovery of a World War II-era bomb near the Gare\u2063 du Nord in\u200d Paris on Friday morning. The \u200dbomb, weighing 1,000 \u2063pounds and containing 400 pounds of explosives, was found\u2063 by \u2062landscaping \u200bworkers during a bridge renovation project about a \u200bmile and a half from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-biden-wont-tolerate-disrespect-for-mitch-mcconnell\/\" title=\"Report: Joe Biden Won\u2019t Tolerate Disrespect for Mitch McConnell\">train station<\/a>. \u2064The bomb was buried \u2062approximately six and a half feet underground and had the potential \u2062to cause severe damage if \u200ddisturbed.<\/p>\n<p>French \u2064authorities \u200binitiated a\u200c complex defusal operation \u2064that lasted for over\u200d 12 hours, leading to the cancellation of around 500 trains and affecting more than \u2064half a million travelers across\u2062 platforms\u2063 like Eurostar. Philippe Tabarot, France\u2019s transportation minister, noted \u200dthe seriousness of the\u2062 operation, while Christophe\u2064 Pezron from the\u2063 Paris police emphasized \u2063the \u200cdangers presented by the unexploded \u200bdevice.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations were mandated for surrounding buildings, and\u200b the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">situation highlighted ongoing concerns<\/a> regarding\u2062 unexploded ordnance from WWII\u200d in urban \u200careas of France. International rail service \u200dwas \u200crestored by \u200cSaturday, allowing stranded travelers to\u2062 resume their journeys. France \u200bhas been recovering and defusing these past artifacts, with over 700,000 bombs and almost 50 \u2064million mines,\u2062 shells,\u200b and other weapons cleared since WWII ended.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Travel across Europe was snarled Friday after a World War II-era bomb was discovered near the Gare du Nord in Paris, where trains crisscrossing the continent connect.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb was discovered at about 3:30 a.m. Friday about a mile and a half from the Gare du Nord, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/world\/europe\/france-world-war-ii-bomb-gare-du-nord-eurostar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>. The bomb was found by workers who were landscaping at a bridge renovation project.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,000-pound bomb, which contained about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-hundreds-evacuated-in-frankfurt-so-wwii-bomb-can-be-defused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400 pounds<\/a> of explosives was about three feet long and was buried about six and a half feet below the surface.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: French police have released images of the unexploded Second World War bomb that has disrupted travel for thousands of Eurostar passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WgXDg7G70B\">https:\/\/t.co\/WgXDg7G70B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#128250; Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ymxB1j61X\">pic.twitter.com\/5ymxB1j61X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1898026171977040020?\">March 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was not a trivial operation,&rdquo; Philippe Tabarot, France&rsquo;s transportation minister, said after the 12-hour operation to defuse the bomb had ended.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb was first moved into a hole before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-blasted-for-ending-vets-30-year-old-memorial-day-rolling-thunder-motorcycle-parade\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Blasted For Ending Vets\u2019 30-Year-Old Memorial Day \u2018Rolling Thunder\u2019 Motorcycle Parade\">bomb disposal<\/a> experts unscrewed and destroyed the fuse &nbsp;&ldquo;like you see in the movies,&rdquo; Christophe Pezron, who heads the Paris police laboratory in charge of bomb disposal, said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-paris-gare-nord-unexploded-bomb-d76871a93baee768df2a225922f12d89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The British-made bomb could have caused major damage, he said, if hit by construction equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the fourth one we&rsquo;ve found in this area since 2019,&rdquo; Pezron said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg13rmnvzvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> noted that British and American planes bombed Paris during the war.<\/p>\n<p>Finding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wwii-bomb-suddenly-detonates-small-town-drone-footage-captures-massive-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unexploded bombs<\/a> &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t happen every day, but it happens,&rdquo; Fabien Villedieu, a leader of a union of railway workers said.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb was about 600 feet from a heavily traveled road. Evacuations were ordered of buildings with windows facing a potential blast site.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s in the middle of an urban zone,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>France&rsquo;s Interior Ministry said since the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-us-wwii-bomb-detonated-in-germany-causing-widespread-damage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a> in 1945, more than 700,000 bombs dropped on France have been defused, as have an estimated nearly 50 million mines, shells and other weapons, according to AP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#127467;&#127479;&#128163;<\/p>\n<p>General chaos since this morning at Gare du Nord, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eurostar-service-resumes-after-unexploded-wwii-bomb-discovered-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... service resumes after ... ... ... discovered - Washington Examiner\">busiest train station<\/a> in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>During night-time work carried out in Saint-Denis, approximately 2.5 kilometers from Gare du Nord, workers discovered a 500kg bomb, WWII era.<\/p>\n<p>Police are working to defuse the device. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAzR5xNT0U\">pic.twitter.com\/iAzR5xNT0U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#119808;&#119847;&#119847;&#119834; &#119818;&#119822;&#119820;&#119826;&#119808; | &#127466;&#127482;&#127467;&#127479;&#127477;&#127473;&#127482;&#127462; (@tweet4Anna_NAFO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tweet4Anna_NAFO\/status\/1897985362728825007?\">March 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The process to remove the bomb led to the cancellation of about 500 trains that impacted more than half a million people, Tabarot estimated.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellations included Eurostar service that left travelers stranded in England as well as on the continent, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>International train service was restored on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The bomb, discovered around 3:30 a.m. about 1.5 miles from the station by workers at a bridge renovation site, weighed 1,000 pounds and contained approximately 400 pounds of explosives. French police released images of the unexploded device that affected thousands of Eurostar passengers. Philippe Tabarot, France\u2019s transportation minister, noted that defusing the bomb took 12 hours and involved moving it to a secure location before safely dismantling its fuse. This particular British-made bomb could have caused significant damage if disturbed by construction work; it is the fourth such discovery in the area since 2019. The operation led to around 500 train cancellations affecting over half a million travelers but international services resumed on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2411638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Picture-62.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5780,51365,51821,51820],"class_list":["post-2411637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-paris","tag-trains-2","tag-unexploded-ordnance","tag-wwii-bomb"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Picture-62.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411641,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411637\/revisions\/2411641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}