For security reasons the museum will be closed for the remainder of the day, the operators said in a statement.
French police stand at the entrance of the Gambetta-Carnot public school where Dominique Bernard, a teacher, was fatally stabbed France will mobilise up to 7,000 soldiers to boost security around the country after a teacher was stabbed to death in an Islamist attack. Emmanuel Macron increased the national threat alert on Friday after the attack at a school in the northern city of Arras, which came amid global tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
He was beheaded by a radicalized Chechen later killed by police. The suspect in the latest attack had been under surveillance since the summer on suspicion of Islamic radicalization, French intelligence services told AP. He was detained Thursday for questioning based on the monitoring of his phone calls in recent days, but investigators found no sign that he was preparing an attack, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
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