(Reuters) French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday deployed up to 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols, as bomb alerts forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum a day after a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack.
France was put on its highest security alert on Friday after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people at a school in the city of Arras in northern France.
The Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles and Paris’ Gare de Lyon train station were evacuated on Saturday after receiving bomb alerts, which proved to be false alarms, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
