The premises of the RMC BFM group in the 15th arrondissement of Paris were evacuated on Saturday and live broadcasts were interrupted for more than two and a half hours due to a bomb threat which was finally lifted in the late afternoon, according to BFMTV.

"The alert was lifted at 5:35 PM," the 24-hour news channel indicated when it resumed live broadcasting, shortly before 6:00 PM.

This interruption "followed a bomb threat that hit our premises in the middle of the day, an alert taken seriously during this very sensitive week of commemoration of the November 13 attacks," explained presenter Karine de Ménonville.

On set, the journalist from the channel's police-justice department, Paul Conge, specified that the premises had been evacuated around 3:20 PM "after the Parisian police received a threatening message in which an anonymous individual claimed to have planted explosive devices in the premises and threatened to blow up the building."

Police had arrived at the scene with explosive-detecting dogs, a police source had previously told AFP.

BFMTV's managing director Fabien Namias spoke of a "very rare event" and apologized to viewers.

"There was no question - from the moment there was an alert of this nature - of putting the BFMTV teams at the slightest risk. We therefore could not ensure the continuity of the broadcast," he explained.

The channel's live broadcast was interrupted at the end of the first part of the news program to make way for advertising and then documentaries.

"The RMC BFM group will take appropriate legal action," it said in a statement early in the evening.

The group's management "condemns in the strongest possible terms this intolerable malicious act," it added.

"Our premises were evacuated following a security alert. Law enforcement is on site to conduct checks," RMC radio and BFMTV announced around 4:30 PM on the social network X. "Our programs are temporarily disrupted across all RMC and BFM channels. Our teams are working to get back on air as soon as possible."

According to BFMTV journalists, the editorial staff of the newspaper La Tribune, also owned by the CMA CGM group and located in the same premises as BFMTV and RMC, was also evacuated.