France's Palace of Versailles reopens after earlier security alert

PARIS — France's Palace of Versailles re-opened to visitors on Tuesday afternoon after closing for a few hours for security reasons, the Chateau de Versailles said on social media network X.

???? Dear visitors,
For security reasons, the Palace of Versailles is evacuating visitors and closing its doors today Tuesday October 17. Thank you for your understanding pic.twitter.com/tDBghI4Uhk

— Château de Versailles (@CVersailles) October 17, 2023

???????? Le Château rouvre ses portes.
????The Palace reopens its doors. pic.twitter.com/dXytoPnXrN

— Château de Versailles (@CVersailles) October 17, 2023

BFM TV, citing police sources, had said earlier that a bomb squad had been dispatched to the site.

The local police body for Versailles said later that the police operation had finished and an earlier security cordon that had been put in place had now been lifted.

On Oct. 14, one day after a teacher in France was killed in an Islamist attack, bomb alerts—which proved to be false—forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles and Paris' Gare de Lyon train station. — Reuters