HE Louvre Museum And Palace of Versailles, This museum, which receives several thousand visitors every day, reopened this Sunday, on the day when the city of Arras commemorates the high school teacher Dominique Bernard, who was killed by Russian-Chechen Islamist Mohamed Mogouchkov on Friday.
Both the Louvre and Versailles announced on their social networks that they would reopen at normal hours. Both institutions, two of the most visited tourist destinations in the world, They were evacuated and temporarily closed this Saturday due to false terrorist alarms..
Also on Saturday, Paris’ busy Gare de Lyon train station was evacuated and closed for a time.
France has raised its terror alert to maximum and is deploying some 7,000 soldiers from “Sentinella” after the stabbing death of fellow teacher Samuel Paty at the Gambetta public high school in Arras three years ago. operation until Monday.
French Minister of Internal Affairs, Gérald Darmanin hinted that Palestinian Hamas militia’s offensive against Israel may have inspired the attack In a statement on Friday, he confirmed that “a jihadist atmosphere exists” in the country, where 272 people have died due to Islamist terrorism since 2012.
At the memorial service held this Sunday in Arras (north), hundreds of people gathered in the city center to commemorate Dominique Bernard, a 57-year-old professor of French literature who left behind three children.
“There are no words to describe this barbaric act, no words to lessen the pain“said the conservative mayor of Arras, Frédéric Leturque.
Currently, Mohamed Mogouchkov, who refused to testify, and 10 other people, most of whom are direct relatives of the young man, are being held in police custody.