More than a thousand police and firemen took part in the largest attack response drill ever carried out in France this week in the southern city of Nîmes, ahead of the Euro 2016 soccer championship due to be held in the country from June 10. French authorities are keen to show they are well prepared for the event, which will take place less than a year after Islamist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. "In Nîmes, it was about a chemical or bacteriological threat," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was quoted as saying in daily newspaper 20 minutes.
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