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		</div><p>A retired French police officer travelling on Air France has been detained after a fake bomb hidden in a toilet forced his Paris-bound flight to make an emergency landing in Kenya.</p>
<p>The hoax – the fourth against Air France in recent weeks – comes amid heightened concerns about extremist violence in many countries, and aggravated passenger jitters around the Christmas holiday season.</p>
<p>The man in custody is a former police officer detained upon arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport today, according to an official in the prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Bobigny.</p>
<p>The official did not release the suspect’s name or information about what he is suspected of.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the Air France flight made an emergency landing in Mombasa, Kenya, after the discovery of the fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer. All 459 passengers and 14 crew members on the flight, from the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to Paris, were safely evacuated.</p>
<p>It is not clear whether the suspect had also been questioned in Kenya. A Kenyan police official said six passengers were questioned on Sunday, including the person who informed the crew about the device.</p>
<p>The arrest is part of an investigation prompted by a lawsuit filed by Air France on Monday for reckless endangerment. The lawsuit does not name a perpetrator but leaves it to investigators to determine who might eventually be sent to trial.</p>
<p>France has been on high alert for terrorist activity and in a state of emergency since Islamic extremist attacks on November 13 in Paris killed 130 people. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for those attacks and for downing a plane carrying Russian tourists out of Egypt in October.</p>
<p>Overwhelmed with relief, passengers on board the affected flight arrived safely in Paris on Monday, some crying as they embraced loved ones.</p>
<p>Passenger Marine Gorlier, of the French town of Melun, said: “We thought we were going to die. Because of the speed of the airplane going down, we thought we would crash in the sea. She also described a telephone ”that did not stop ringing“.</p>
<p>Antoine Dupont, of the northern city of Lille, said: “I really admired the crew, because they thought it was a real bomb and they remained very serene.</p>
<p>“One of my grandchildren said: ’The (evacuation) slide was super.”’</p>
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