PARIS, 14 Oct. About three thousand visitors to one of the most famous museums in the world, the Louvre in Paris, were evacuated due to a bomb threat after receiving reports of a bomb, Parisien newspaper reported on Saturday.
Earlier, the Louvre announced its decision to close its doors to visitors “for security reasons.” The statement came after France imposed a maximum terror alert yesterday following an attack at a school in Arras that left a teacher dead.
“According to our information, we are talking about a bomb threat that was made when there were about three thousand people in the museum who had to be evacuated,” the newspaper said.
According to a Louvre spokesman, the museum received a written message warning of “the risk to the museum and its visitors,” Parisien writes.
On Friday morning, a 20-year-old man with a knife attacked employees of the Gambetta Lyceum in the city of Arras in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. According to a police source, during the attack he shouted “Allahu Akbar!” One person was killed and three more were injured. The attacker was detained by the police. He is on the list of radical Islamists who are being monitored to prevent terrorist attacks, as well as on the list of persons posing a threat to state security (fiche S).
At the same time, the brother of the attacker was detained at another school. According to the source, he turned out to be Movsar Mogushkov, who had previously been convicted of publishing materials on social networks from the terrorist organization “Islamic State*” (banned in the Russian Federation). According to the source, the family of the detainees previously tried to obtain political asylum in France; they are immigrants from Ingushetia.
* A terrorist group banned in Russia.
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