French Government Criticized for Keeping Bomb Threats Secret

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PARIS (AP) - A commuters' advocacy group criticized the French government Thursday for keeping secret a multimillion-dollar extortion plot by an unknown group threatening to blow up railway tracks.
The threats, first disclosed Wednesday, appeared in letters sent to the offices of President Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Dec. 10, Feb. 13 and 17.

"Once more, the law of silence has prevailed," the Federation of Transport Users, a commuter's advocacy group, said in a statement.

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