(NL Times) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a new warning for people traveling to France after the French government raised its domestic security threat level to its most heightened position. The assessment of “Emergency: Attack” was issued by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal last Friday after a terrorist attack on a Moscow music venue claimed the lives of at least 137 people.
Attal raised the threat level due to “Islamic State having claimed responsibility for the attack and the threats hanging over our country,” he said. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte quickly condemned the attack, and said news and images of the violence “chills you to the bone.”
Dutch citizens are not being told to avoid France, but to be “extra alert” when in the country.
