A bomb threat has seen Versailles Palace evacuated for the second time in five days.

Footage from October 17 shows police surrounding the palace with tourists being evacuated from the premises.

According to reports, the palace will be closed for the rest of the day.

On October 14 the palace and the Louvre Museum were evacuated due to a bomb threat.

Second bomb alert at Castle of Versailles. Paris suburb, France since the activation of the "alerte attentat" level.

Since Friday October 13, France has been on “emergency attack” alert. This is the highest level of the Vigipirate plan.

In a context of terrorist threat and war between Israel and Hamas, an attack occurred in Arras: France on “emergency attack” alert after the death of a professor
Mohammed M., a former student of the Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, stabbed several people on Friday morning before being arrested.

The man, known to the intelligence services, is registered in the file for processing reports for the prevention of radicalization of a terrorist nature. From Arras, Emmanuel Macron denounced, Friday afternoon, “the barbarity of Islamist terrorism”.

Video: 17 oct 2023


Second bomb alert at Chateau de Versailles Castle, Paris suburb, France since the activation of the "alerte attentat" level.