Louvre Museum and Château de Versailles Evacuated Following Bomb Threat
The country had been on high alert after a teacher was murdered by a suspected extremist on Friday.
Thousands of visitors were evacuated from the Louvre Museum in Paris today after a written bomb threat was received by staff. The country has been on high alert since the killing of a teacher in Northern France this past Friday, from a suspect that national intelligence had suspected as n Islamist extremist.
Representatives at the institution put out a release “stating there is a risk to the museum and its visitors”, prompting to “evacuate and close for the day in order to carry out essential checks.” Shortly after, the much-visited Château de Versailles was also evacuated in a similar bomb threat.
Dominique Bernard, a 57-year-old French literature teacher was stabbed to death on the morning of October 7 by a former student, Mohammed M, who was born in Russia’s North Caucusus. France would deploy 7,000 troops across the country to heighten security following the crime, along with serving as a precautionary effort in response to the growing protests surrounding the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
According to a report by the Guardian, the suspect in question had been put on France’s Fiche S security list — reserved for individual’s deemed a serious threat to national security — and had tapped his phone prior, but had found no concrete evidence to detain him before Friday’s incident.
