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Parts of Frankfurt Airport were evacuated on Tuesday and dozens of flights cancelled after a French family of four got past security despite a positive test for explosives.

Police blamed “an error by a security officer”. It led to boarding being halted and a partial evacuation of Terminal 1.

The family were later found, questioned and allowed to travel on. A police spokeswoman said one of them had not fully completed security checks.

Police did not clarify what had triggered the positive explosives test. A similar incident on 28 July at Munich Airport caused 300 flights to be cancelled, affecting 30,000 people.

Travellers at Frankfurt Airport – Germany’s largest – are now facing cancellations and long queues to re-enter the departure area. More than 49 flights have been cancelled, German media report.

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The last member of an immigrant group who fought the Nazis for the French Resistance has died aged 101.

Arsène Tchakarian escaped a Nazi crackdown in which 22 of the group’s fighters were shot by the German occupation forces in Paris in 1944. He was awarded France’s highest honour.

President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that Tchakarian, an ethnic Armenian, was “a hero of the Resistance and tireless witness whose voice resonated strongly to the very end”.

Tchakarian only became a French citizen in 1958. He was granted several medals for gallantry, including the prestigious Legion of Honour in 2012.

Tchakarian carried out attacks alongside Jews and other immigrant guerrillas against the Nazis.

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A man who attacked an ice cream van and threatened its owner with a Samurai sword in front of “screaming” children has been jailed.

Jamie Tickle was drunk and high on cocaine when he climbed into the van and waved the sword as a woman was serving three children on 1 July. He then hid by bins but was arrested shortly after the attack in Merseyside.

Tickle was jailed for two years and eight months at Liverpool Crown Court for affray and possession of a weapon.

Judge Stephen Everett said the attack “came out of the blue and we may never get to the bottom of why he did what he did”. He said although no-one was injured, the attack caused “psychological devastation”.

The judge also said he was unsure whether Tickle, 32, fully understood the seriousness of what he had done.
The court had earlier heard that Nuntaporn Watkinson had been working at The Rides in Haydock when Tickle, of Central Drive in the town, approached her carrying a three-foot (90cm) long sword. Mrs Watkinson, who has returned to work since the attack on her 34th birthday, said that while she was “terrified” of being killed, her “biggest fear was for the three children I’d been serving”. “I can hear the children screaming and crying,” she added.

A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman said: “This was a truly awful incident that took place on a busy suburban street in broad daylight, in full view of a number of children.”

A rapper in London’s drill music scene, who was cleared of murder earlier this year, has been stabbed to death.

Three men were found with stab wounds on Warham Street, Camberwell, at 19:20 BST on Wednesday.

Victim Siddique Kamara, also known as Incognito and SK, was cleared at the Old Bailey in January of murdering Abdirahman Mohamed. Two men are in custody on suspicion of murder. The Met said “one line of inquiry is this being gang-related”.

Mr Kamara, 23, was friends with fellow rapper Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, who was found with fatal gunshot wounds in Warham Street in May. Friends have paid tribute to the performer, who was part of the Moscow17 group.

The Met said he was pronounced dead at the scene. The two men in custody, aged 18 and 19, were arrested nearby, officers added. The two other wounded men, aged 16 and 31, were airlifted to hospital, where they remain. Read More

A man accused of bombing a Düsseldorf train station in July 2000, targeting Jewish immigrants, has been acquitted.

A court ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict the man, an alleged neo-Nazi, who was charged with 12 counts of attempted murder.

The pipe bomb badly injured 10 of the 12 people, including a pregnant woman who lost her child and one of her feet.

Ahead of the verdict, prosecutors said an acquittal would be “the most serious legal error” in Düsseldorf’s history.

During the trial, several witnesses withdrew or changed their statements, resulting in judges releasing the defendant – named in court as Ralf S – from pre-trial detention in May.

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