France raises terror alert level
new.com.au | 7th July 2005
 

FRANCE today raised its anti-terror alert to red, the second-highest rating, after a series of explosions rocked London, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced. The alert level was changed immediately to red, moving up one notch on a four-level scale, the prime minister said.

Scarlet is the highest warning level.

Mr Villepin expressed his "deepest solidarity'' with the British people after the explosions