France deploys 7,000 soldiers on the streets for fear of an attack and evacuates the Louvre and Versailles

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2023-10-14 14:14:02

A day after a Chechen Islamist slit the throat of a teacher in a French high school, the French country has been forced to evacuate and close the Louvre Museum, the most visited in the world, and the Palace of Versailles. The decision comes amid fears of an imminent attack and after two written bomb threats had been received.

The two events occur one day after The young Chechen Mohamed M. stabbed Professor Dominique Bernard to death this Friday, 57 years old, inside the Gambetta institute in Arras. The individual, who was being monitored by the secret services for his links with Islamic fundamentalism, also caused two other injuries in what has been considered a terrorist attack. All after Hamas made a call to a “friday of wrath“already one”global jihad” in response to what is happening in the Gaza Strip.

In this context, the French presidency has raised the terrorist alert and reported this Saturday that until 7,000 soldiers of the so-called Operation Sentinel -activated after the 2015 attacks against Charlie Hebdo- They will be deployed throughout the country until this Monday. According to official data, since 2012, the various jihadist attacks carried out in France have killed 272 people and injured 1,200.

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