Evacuation in Paris | Page12

About 1,800 inhabitants of northern Paris and the city of Saint-Denis were evacuated yesterday morning for the scheduled deactivation of a large bomb weighing hundreds of pounds since April 1944. The American-made bomb, probably launched by a British plane, when the Nazis still occupied Paris in the spring of 1944, was on February 4 during work with one of the corridors of the railway entering the French capital. The operation, led by the police prefecture around the Chapel Gate, will complete once it will have exploded into a seven-meter-deep hole dug and protected with sacks of earth to minimize any shaking. The artifact was moved yesterday morning from where it was found, about 70 meters away. The evacuation of the inhabitants, in a perimeter of 300 meters, was carried out between 6 and 8:30 local on both sides of the Parisian device which separates the capital from the city of Saint-Denis.