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X April 23, 2026 at 05:27 PM

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then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source
Correction

This is being presented as a confirmed sequence of events, but current reporting says the method and culprit are not established. News reports describe the 'hair dryer' / portable heat-source story as an unverified rumor while the official investigation is only beginning.

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Multiple reports say only that suspicious temperature anomalies were recorded and that Météo-France filed a complaint. They do not confirm that a specific person "walked up to the probe" or that a portable heater was actually used.

  • Euronews says: "Online rumors, which remain unverified for the time being, claim the temperature reading was manipulated by someone using a hair dryer to generate a higher temperature." That directly contradicts stating the heating method as settled fact.
  • Le Parisien / AFP reports that Météo-France filed a complaint after physical findings and sensor-data analysis, but also says Météo-France did not directly link its complaint to the reports about Polymarket and that the Bobigny prosecutor had "no element to communicate at this stage" because the investigation was only beginning.

So the reliable, sourced version is: there were suspicious spikes and an investigation/complaint — not a confirmed account of a person heating the probe with a portable device.

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filed charges
Correction

Météo-France did not itself 'file charges.' It filed a police complaint, and prosecutors said the investigation was only just starting.

Full reasoning

The post overstates the legal step taken by Météo-France.

According to Le Parisien / AFP, Météo-France said it "déposé plainte" — i.e. it filed a complaint — for tampering with an automated data-processing system. The same report says the Bobigny prosecutor had no details to communicate yet because the investigation was only beginning. Euronews likewise says Météo-France filed a complaint with the Roissy air transport gendarmerie brigade.

That is not the same thing as Météo-France itself having already filed criminal charges. A complaint had been lodged; charges had not been publicly announced at that stage.

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