French police evacuated people after a bomb was reported in Versailles. It is the second tourist destination in France to be targeted by a terror alert on Saturday. The Louvre was closed for a day after receiving the threat.

France declared a “state of emergency” on Friday after a knife attack in Arras, in the north of the country, in which a teacher was killed and two others were seriously injured, amid fears that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could widen, it said. Prime Minister. the office said on Friday evening, AFP informs.

Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne has “decided to raise the urgent alert of an attack”, her office said after a security meeting at the Elysee Palace with President Emmanuel Macron.

The “emergency attack” level can be entered immediately after an attack or if an identified and unidentified terrorist group begins to operate.

Believers and representatives of the Muslim community on Friday strongly condemned the “barbaric” attack in which a man shouting “Allah Akbar” killed a teacher and seriously injured two others at a secondary school in Arras.

“We share the shock and pain caused in our country by this heinous act, which we strongly condemn,” Chams-Eddin Hafeez, the head of the Grand Mosque in Paris, said in a statement, expressing his “shock” and “horror.” at the same time “terrorist attack”.

“In our Muslim culture, as in the history of our country, teachers occupy a special and fundamental place that makes any attack on their physical and moral integrity intolerable,” he added in a statement.

The French Council of the Muslim Cult (CFCM) “strongly” condemned the “criminal and vile” attack, which “reawakens deep wounds” three years after the murder of Samuel Pati.

As for the phrase “Allah Akbar,” it has been “abused” and “raised by some as a slogan of terrorist cowardice and barbarism,” according to the CFCM, which called for “strengthening our unity in the fight against murderous ideologies that may affect some of our young people.” , who got lost.”