Louvre Museum is being evacuated after a threat while France is under high alert
The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day and evacuating all visitors and staff after it received a written threat PARIS -- The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats. The government has put France on high security alert after a fatal school stabbing by a suspected extremist. The Louvre communication service said no one was hurt and no incident was reported. Paris police said officers searched the museum after it received written bomb threat s. The former royal palace at Versailles also received bomb threat s, a national police spokesperson said. The palace and its sprawling gardens were being evacuated while police examine the area, the spokesperson said. Alarms rang out through the Louvre, a vast space also in a former royal palace Paris overlooking the Seine River, when the evacuation was announced, and in the underground shopping center beneath its signature pyramid. Police cordoned off the monument fr...
