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‘Hairdryer or lighter?’: French police look at claim of sensor tampering to win weather bets

The view of planes from a departure lounge at Charles de Gaulle
Polymarket traders appear to have made large profits from unexpected temperature changes recorded at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris. Photograph: Éric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images

French police are investigating alleged tampering with national weather forecasting service equipment after a series of unusual temperature readings coincided with suspicious winning bets made on Polymarket.

Data from a Météo-France weather station at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport was used to settle bets between online gamblers on what the temperature would be in Paris for March and the first weeks of April.

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