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French police officers patrol in front of the Louvre museum, closed for security reasons, in Paris, as French government puts the nation on its highest state of alert after a deadly knife attack in northern France, on October 14, 2023..
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 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...
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