RETIRED POLICEMAN CAUSED FAKE BOMB SCARE ON AIR FRANCE

Not much is known about this hoaxer, but what he did is a huge disfavor to everyone after the tragedy that occurred last month:

French police on Monday released from custody a retired policeman they had held over the discovery of a fake bomb on board an Air France flight that made an emergency landing in Kenya, prosecutors said.

"The current state of the investigation does not justify continuing custody", the prosecutor in Bobigny north of Paris told AFP, while a legal source said the suspect's release did not mean he has been cleared of suspicion.

The 58-year-old man was taken into custody by border police upon his return to France while his wife was also questioned as a witness, a day after their flight from Mauritius to Paris was diverted to Kenya, a legal source said earlier.

A passenger alerted crew members to the device found inside a toilet cubicle on Sunday on board the Boeing 777, which was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew.

I think the police are foolish to just let the joker go, because what he did was not only contempt for the other passengers, it was also a disgrace to his former career. He should by all means be penalized severely for causing everyone so much distress.