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Reports: Paris Louvre evacuated due to bomb threat

The police have cordoned off the area around the Louvre with tape. photo

© Thomas Padilla/AP/dpa

The Louvre in Paris has been closed for security reasons. The museum announced this on X.

The Parisian According to media reports, the Louvre was evacuated on Saturday because of a bomb threat. As the television station BFMTV reported, citing police sources, the museum had received bomb threats. The museum announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the facility would be closed for security reasons. On X, some Louvre visitors posted videos showing people leaving the museum.

France is on the highest terror alert level after the fatal knife attack by an Islamist in a school on Friday and plans to mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers across the country by Monday. An Islamist radicalized young man killed a teacher with a knife and seriously injured three other people.