Eight airports in France were forced to evacuate on October 18, 2023, for security reasons. The Beauvais airport near Paris said it was evacuated following anonymous threat received by several French Hubs,” The airport later said that it was in the process of reopening.
In Eastern France, Strasbourg airport said that it was evacuated due to a bomb threat. The CNN affiliate BFMTV reported citing police sources, Nantes airport in Western France had also evacuated for the same reason.
The airports of Biarritz and Toulouse in the southwest, Lille in the north and Lyon-Bron in the southeast said operations were resuming following a police operation and all four were evacuated earlier on October 18, 2023, were evacuated due to an unattended item earlier in the day. Similarly, the operations at Nice Airport in Southern France have already resumed after evacuating due to an unattended item earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, the Palace of Versailles near Paris evacuated visitors for security reasons for the third time in less than a week, the popular tourist destination said on its website on October 18, 2023. It reopened to visitors later the same day.
The venue was forced to evacuate on October 17, 2023, due to a suspicious item and over the weekend due to a bomb threat. an international news agency has reached out to the police for comment. On October 7, 2023, the Paris Louvre Museum was closed for security reasons but reponed the following day. France raised the security alert to the highest level possible following a knife attack a school in the northern city of Arras last week.
