...US security said earlier that a number of suspicious people were planning to board Air France planes.
But French officials said seven men had been freed after questioning.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the men - one French, one American and several Algerians - had been briefly questioned late on Wednesday.
He described the investigation as all but on hold.
A French judicial official added that none of the passengers on the cancelled flights - including those questioned - were known to intelligence authorities or had known links with Islamic radicals.
A Tunisian national with a pilot's licence who was on a US list of suspicious people was found to be still in Tunisia and had no plans to leave the country, he said...
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