2023-10-14 19:04:00
Chaos reigns in the city of Paris for one succession of bomb alert notices. This Saturday, three emblematic places in the French capital – the Gare de Lyon station, the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre – have been evacuated due to possible attacks.
The Parisian train station Gare de Lyon was evacuated this Saturday by attack threat, confirmed the Minister of the Interior of France, Gérald Darmanin. It is one of the main train stations in France and connects Paris with the east and south-east of the country and with countries such as Switzerland.
Darmanin, however, wanted to send a message of reassurance on a day when two rugby World Cup quarter-final matches are played, in Marseille and Saint-Denis, which attract several tens of thousands of spectators. «
So far, we have had the Rugby World Cup, the visit of the Pope, that of King Charles and there has been no problem of public order or terrorism due to the outstanding presence of police and gendarmes”, he pointed out. “We will further strengthen this presence in matches like tonight’s at the France Stadium”, where Ireland and New Zealand face each other, the minister said. EFE
Bomb threat in Versailles and the Louvre
Before, it had already been evacuated the Palace of Versailles this Saturday afternoon after a bomb threat, which arrived via an anonymous message on the moncommissariat.fr website, a source close to the matter told AFP. The same source added that the monument would not reopen today.
He Louvre Museum has closed exceptionally this afternoon «for security reasons», at a time when France is in emergency alert for terrorist attackand the day after The Islamist attack on Arràsin the north of the country, where a young man murdered a teacher and injured three other adults.
“The Louvre has received a written message that mentioned one risk for the museum and its visitors” and “we have opted for evacuate it and close it during the day, the time necessary to carry out the necessary checks”, a spokeswoman told the France Press agency after the announcement of the closure on the Twitter social network.
A police source quoted by French television TF1/LC1 has explained that the measure is in response to “messages of bomb threats» and «there is a check in progress».
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The evacuation has been carried out in late morning after a normal day in which the museum opened its doors at 9:00 a.m. Through a publication on its official account, the Louvre has indicated that people who had reserved a visit to the museum for this Saturday will receive a refund.
France stepped up this weekend the highest anti-terrorist alert and has ordered the deployment of 7,000 soldiers throughout the country after the murder, this Friday, of a teacher at a high school in Arràs (north) in an Islamist attack.
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