Alarms rang out through the Louvre when the evacuation was announced, and in the underground shopping center beneath its signature pyramid.
The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats, police said. The French government started deploying 7,000 troops to increase security around the country after a fatal school stabbing by a suspected Islamic extremist.
He was detained Thursday for questioning based on his phone conversations in recent days, but investigators found no sign that he was preparing an attack, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. He said French intelligence suggested a link between the war in the Middle East and the suspect’s decision to act.Court documents viewed by The Associated Press show the suspect, identified by prosecutors as Mohammed M.
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