Toulouse. A large-scale terrorist attack simulated during an exercise at the Cité de l’Espace
By Gabriel Kenedi
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If you have driven near the Space Citya Toulouseyou have probably come across many police and emergency vehicles in the area, this Monday afternoon, September 19, 2022.
A life-size exercise
No unnecessary panic: it was of a life-size exercise, as is organized each year by the authorities in the Toulouse metropolis.
” A civil security exercise will take place this Monday, September 19 afternoon in the Cité de l’Espace district in Toulouse “, indicated earlier in the day the prefecture of Haute-Garonne, in a press release sent to the editorial staff.
According to the prefecture, this exercise “vis a vis coordination tester between the various security and relief actors in the event of an event or crisis”.
A mass killing
According to our information, the exercise, which started at 1.30 p.m. and ended at 6 p.m., had the scope the interior of the Cité de l’Espace and its nearby exteriors. He gathered several hundred participantsincluding the services of the prefecture, the RAID, the police, the Samu, the Sdis or even the deminers.
And for good reason, the exercise (which was not open to the press) consisted of fake a terrorist attack who appropriates a mass shooting. The famous Toulouse University Hospital refuge (a unique mobile hospital in the world, operational in 20 minutes) was therefore tested for the first time in the disaster medicine configuration on this occasion.
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