For security reasons the museum will be closed for the remainder of the day, the operators said in a statement.
Paris’s Louvre Museum has closed doors today The Louvre in Paris has shut for ‘security reasons’ on one of the busiest days for tourists as France remains on a maximum terror alert today. Bomb threats were sent to the museum, an unnamed police source was quoted as saying by local TV. Footage shows hundreds of people being evacuated from its premises, located on the Right Bank of the Seine, in the centre of the capital.
‘We have decided… to evacuate and close it for the day, while we carry out the necessary checks.’ This comes as president Emmanuel Macros announced the mobilization of up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded yesterday. Counterterrorism authorities are investigating the attack at the Gambetta-Carnot school in the northern city of Arras.
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