Cold War warning sirens are sounding across France. Here's why

It's a typical Wednesday lunchtime in Paris, the streets buzzing with tourists, terraces packed with tables, when the wail of an air raid siren fills the air.

In France, on the first Wednesday of every month, sirens -- initially envisaged as Cold War bombing warnings -- let rip as a test of the alarms in some 2,000 towns and villages across the country. "Obviously, they are quickly reassured by our team who are equipped with the right tools to respond to their concerns on the first Wednesday of the month."Sirens were installed across France after World War II to warn against Cold War bombings.The sirens heard today can be traced back as far as the Middle Ages. Since that time, it has been the administration's responsibility to signal any incident that could physically threaten the population.

In Maison-Laffitte, a town of around 23,000 residents in the western suburbs of Paris, the main siren is located on the roof of the town hall. Only policemen have access to the siren and the town hall employees get front row seats to its roar.The way they work is relatively straightforward."The agents of the prefecture can activate it via an app that is quite easy to access," says Pianezze.

But given today's geopolitical happenings, Douvinet points out that the return of war on European territory may have refreshed the public's thinking about the sirens. In 2019, a chemical factory caught fire one night in Rouen in northwestern France, and a cloud of black smoke enveloped the town. The choice was made to use the sirens as a secondary alert measure, and to only trigger two of them a few hours after the start of the fire, to warn people once they had woken up in the morning.

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