France’s Versailles Castle was again the target of a bomb threat and was evacuated around 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, the Yvelines prefecture announced, according to AFP. This is the third threat in less than a week.

“The evacuation is ongoing and progressing well,” the prefecture told AFP, adding that a team of scientists had arrived at the scene.

Like the two bomb alerts on Saturday afternoon and Tuesday targeting the same location, this threat was reported through the moncommissariat.fr platform, the prefecture said.

“For security reasons, Château de Versailles is evacuating visitors,” the institution said on its X (formerly Twitter) account, without giving a reason.

The palace was evacuated on Saturday afternoon and again around 1pm on Tuesday following bomb threats, while France was on high alert following the killing of a teacher in the north of the country on Friday.

On October 13, France decided to once again raise the Vigipirate alert level to “extraordinary attack”, the highest level of this security device, which allows the exclusive mobilization of anti-terrorist means, after the murder of teacher Dominique Bernard, who was wounded by a radicalized young man in front of a high school in the city of Arras (north France).

The day after the attack by a radicalized Islamist, the Louvre, the world’s largest museum in central Paris, remained closed from midday “for security reasons”.