Two of Paris’s most popular tourist destinations were evacuated and shut down on Saturday for security reasons a day after the fatal stabbing of a teacher in the north of France that President Emmanuel Macron described as an Islamist terror attack.
(Bloomberg) — Two of Paris’s most popular tourist destinations were evacuated and shut down on Saturday for security reasons a day after the fatal stabbing of a teacher in the north of France that President Emmanuel Macron described as an Islamist terror attack.
The Palace of Versailles was evacuated following a bomb threat, a French police official said by phone. The local prefect confirmed on social media. A Louvre spokesperson said earlier in the day that the site was made aware of a security risk for the museum and its visitors, and had decided to close down the museum.
France raised its security alert level to the maximum on Friday and a spokesperson for Macron subsequently announced the deployment of as many as 7,000 additional soldiers to patrol the country.
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(Updates with Versailles Castle evacuation starting in first paragraph)
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