The Palace of Versailles was evacuated again on Tuesday due to a bomb threat, the second in the past week, and will remain closed all day, the palace’s management body announced on social media.
“For security reasons, the Palace of Versailles is withdrawing visitors today and closing its doors,” the Versailles management team announced on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The building, one of the most touristic and symbolic places in France, had already been evacuated on Saturday afternoon following a bomb threat via an anonymous message published on the website moncommissariat.fr.
Last weekend, the Louvre was also evacuated as part of a high alert against terrorist threats in France, activated by the government after the murder of a teacher on Friday.
The attack, carried out at the Gambetta-Carnot secondary school in Arras, northern France, was carried out by a young Chechen-Russian accused of Islamic radicalization.
The young man stabbed and killed Professor Dominique Bernard, after also wounding three others, shortly after releasing a video claiming the action was carried out in the name of the Islamic State organization.
On Friday, around 7,000 soldiers were mobilized across the country as part of the ‘Sentinelle’ operation, a measure launched in 2015 by then-President François Hollande, following the wave of ‘jihadist’ attacks that hit the country that year (Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo).
Since 2012, terrorist attacks linked to Islamic extremism in France have killed 272 people and injured 1,200, in 2015 and 2016.
Source: DN
