On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron authorized the deployment of up to 7,000 soldiers to enhance security patrols.

This move came in response to bomb threats that led to the evacuation of the Louvre museum, just a day after a teacher was tragically killed in an Islamist attack.

France had been placed on its highest security alert on Friday when a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and seriously injured two others at a school in the northern city of Arras, Reuters reported.

Subsequently, the Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles, and Paris’ Gare de Lyon train station were evacuated on Saturday due to bomb threats, which were later determined to be false alarms, according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

While Darmanin refrained from commenting on the Arras attack investigation, he did mention the emergence of a “jihadist atmosphere” in light of recent developments in the Middle East.

These developments were marked by Israel’s military offensive against Hamas fighters following their deadly actions the previous Saturday.

Written by staff