The famous Louvre Museum in Paris closed on Saturday due to fears of an attack. “For security reasons,” visitors were taken out of the Louvre at midday and the museum was closed, a spokeswoman told the AFP news agency. The Louvre received “a written message indicating a risk to the museum and its visitors.” Now the necessary checks would be carried out. On X (formerly Twitter), some Louvre visitors posted videos showing people leaving the museum.
Due to the escalation of violence in the Middle East, France has been on the highest terror alert level since Friday. The government decided to increase the number of soldiers in anti-terror operations to up to 7,000 nationwide.
An Islamist attack was carried out in Arras, northern France, on Friday: a Russian from the Russian Republic of Ingushetia, who was known to the security authorities as an Islamist threat, stabbed a teacher and injured three other people. French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack as “Islamist terrorism.”
In Liechtenstein, a lockdown in the capital Vaduz following a bomb threat was lifted on Saturday morning because no explosives were found. A man who wanted to “support Palestine” had made anonymous threats there, the police said. The warning came on Friday evening while a street party was taking place in Vaduz and the national soccer team was playing. Large parts of Vaduz were then sealed off.
