France's Palace of Versailles is evacuating its visitors for security reasons and will be closed on Tuesday, the Chateau de Versailles said on social network X.
🌍 Dear visitors,
— Château de Versailles (@CVersailles) October 17, 2023
For security reasons, the Palace of Versailles is evacuating visitors and closing its doors today Tuesday October 17. Thank you for your understanding pic.twitter.com/tDBghI4Uhk
BFM TV, citing police sources, said a bomb squad was on its way to the site.
On Oct. 14, one day after a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack, bomb alerts - which proved to be false - forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles and Paris' Gare de Lyon train station.
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