FALSE ALARM

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Sunday morning, January 6, 2008, Armenian Christmas Day, a false bomb scare disturbed the religious service of the Armenian Church in Paris, Jean Echian from Paris reports. An anonymous call from a phone located close to the Avenue des Champs-Elysees started a vast police operation.

Arrived towards 11:35 AM, the police force carried out the evacuation of the church during the mass of Christmas, celebrated for the first time by Archbishop Norvan Zakarian, new primate of the Apostolic Church of France. After a meticulous search during which no bomb was found the Christmas mass continued.

Archbishop Zakarian said: “I think this is a joke.”