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France Deploys 7,000 Troops for Extra Security After Teacher Slain

PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron on Oct. 14 deployed up to 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols, as bomb alerts forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum a day after a teacher was killed in an Islamic attack.

France was put on its highest security alert on Oct. 13 after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people at a school in the city of Arras in northern France.

The Louvre museum, the Palace of Versailles and Paris’s Gare de Lyon train station were evacuated on Oct. 14 after receiving bomb alerts, which proved to be false alarms, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

He declined to comment on the investigation into the Arras attack but said a “jihadist atmosphere” had developed following events in the Middle East, where Israel is conducting a military offensive against Hamas fighters after their deadly rampage on Oct. 7.

“We think the absolutely disgusting geopolitics has allowed a certain number of people to take action in the name of radical Islam,” Mr. Darmanin told a news conference.

Mr. Macron’s office said the soldiers would be deployed by the evening of Oct. 16 until further notice as part of an ongoing security operation in major city centers and tourist sites.

Mr. Darmanin told a news conference that 3,500 police officers would be deployed over the weekend to provide security for the matches as well as to protect Jewish sites.

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