Paris —
A weather sensor in France’s busiest airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, has been tampered with in what a French weather association says it suspects to be a betting scam.
France’s national meteorological agency, Meteo France, said in a statement sent to CNN on Thursday that it has formally filed a complaint regarding the “tampering of an automated data processing system” located in Charles de Gaulles Airport, used to measure daily temperatures for Paris.
On two separate occasions in April, users of American betting platform Polymarket placed successful bets on unexpected temperature spikes in the French capital, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported. Launched in 2020, Polymarket…