Paris Pullman hotel incident was false alert: interior ministry spokesman

PARIS (Reuters) - The police cordon briefly put around the Pullman Hotel in Paris' 15th district was a false alert, an interior ministry spokesman told Reuters on Saturday as authorities sought accomplices of the gunmen of Friday's wave of shootings around Paris. A spokesman for the Accor hotel chain also said it was a false bomb alert. (Reporting by Emmanuel Jarry and Pascale Denis; Editing by Geert de Clercq)