The Louvre Museum in Paris evacuated all visitors and employees out of concern for a terrorist attack.
Louvre facilities sounded alarms and shepherded individuals out of the museum Saturday morning after receiving a written threat.
As people quickly fled, police surrounded the iconic landmark and swept the area.
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The Louvre Museum is seen in Paris, France. (Kristy Sparow/Getty Images For David Yurman)
France is currently experiencing a high threat alert level after a widely publicized attack by a radicalized former student.
A Chechen immigrant on France’s extremist watch list allegedly stabbed a teacher to death Friday morning and wounded two others in a suspected terror attack that the country’s president called an assassination.
It happened outside a school in the city of Arras, about 115 miles north of Paris, near the border with Belgium, and a suspect is in custody, according to France’s interior minister Gerald Darmanin.
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French President Emmanuel Macron (C), flanked by French education and youth minister Gabriel Attal (C-R) and French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (C-L), talk to the press after a visit to the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France. (LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
French authorities said they suspect terror as a motive in the attack, which comes amid a raging conflict in Israel following a terror-fueled attack by Hamas terrorists based in the Gaza Strip.
French President Emmanuel Macron said during a news briefing that police also stopped a second attempted attack after the stabbing, which he said shows “the barbarism of Islamic terrorism.”
On Thursday, Darmanin ordered a country-wide ban on demonstrations in support of the Palestinians.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stands next to French President Emmanuel Macron as he talks to the press after a visit to the Gambetta high school in Arras. A man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults at a school in northeastern France, with prosecutors opening a probe into a suspected act of terror. ((Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images))
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At least 24 people have been charged with antisemitic acts in the country since the Hamas attack on Israel last week.
