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A6 WORLD NEWS
Monday 16 october 2023

Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb

threats with France on alert

By ANGELA CHARLTON and to act.
JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Court documents viewed
Associated Press by The Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre show the suspect, identified
Museum in Paris and Ver- by prosecutors as Moham-
sailles Palace evacuated med M., is from the Ingush-
visitors and staff Satur- etia region in Russia's Cau-
day after receiving bomb casus Mountains, which
threats, police said. The neighbors Chechnya.
French government started Some schoolchildren, par-
deploying 7,000 troops to ents and personnel re-
increase security around turned to the Gambetta-
the country after a fatal Carnot school Saturday, as
school stabbing by a sus- police stood guard outside.
pected Islamic extremist. Classes were canceled,
The evacuations of two but the school reopened
of the world's most-visited for those who wanted to
tourist sites come amid come together or seek sup-
heightened vigilance port.
around France following Trauma specialists de-
Friday's school attack, and scribed the importance of
global tensions linked to Staff leave the Louvre Museum as people are evacuated after it received a written threat, in Paris, addressing the emotions
the war between Israel and Saturday Oct. 14, 2023. and revisiting the scene
Hamas. President Emmanu- Associated Press soon after horrific events.
el Macron's government is One mother said she
worried about fallout from 30,000 and 40,000 visitors by Monday night, after the mains unclear, and he is re- came with her 17-year-old
the war in France. per day and several million government heightened portedly refusing to speak daughter in a show of de-
Alarms rang out through the annually. the national threat alert in to investigators. fiance against extremism,
Louvre when the evacua- The former royal palace the wake of the school at- The suspect had been un- and to overcome the fear
tion was announced, and at Versailles also received tack in the northern city of der recent surveillance by of returning to a site where
in the underground shop- bomb threats, and the pal- Arras. intelligence services for children were locked down
ping center beneath its sig- ace and its sprawling gar- The "attack emergency" Islamic radicalization. He for hours after the stabbing.
nature pyramid. Paris police dens were being evacu- threat posture allows the was detained Thursday for Another mother came to
said officers searched the ated while police examine government to temporarily questioning based on his seek guidance from coun-
museum after it received the area, according to na- deploy extra troops to pro- phone conversations in re- selors about how to sup-
written bomb threats. The tional police. A major Paris tect public places, among cent days, but investigators port her two sons, who wit-
Louvre communication ser- train station, Gare de Lyon, other measures. found no sign that he was nessed the attack in their
vice said no one was hurt was being evacuated after Counterterrorism authori- preparing an attack, Inte- schoolyard.
and no bomb was found, the discovery of a possible ties are investigating the rior Minister Gerald Darma- "As adults, we are manag-
so the museum will reopen bottle explosive, police Arras stabbing, and the nin said. ing with difficulty to take
as usual on Sunday. said. suspected assailant and He said French intelligence a step back, but for them,
The Louvre, home to mas- Earlier Saturday, Macron's several others are in cus- suggested a link between they're children," said Emily
terpieces such as the Mona office announced the mo- tody, prosecutors said. The the war in the Middle East Noge, arriving at the school
Lisa, welcomes between bilization of 7,000 soldiers attacker's exact motive re- and the suspect's decision with her sons and partner.q

Hackers attack Guatemalan

government webpages in support of

pro-democracy protests

webpages Saturday. mous will attack the Gov- but others remained down.
For almost two weeks, ernment of Guatemala, Guatemalan authorities
demonstrators have been but this time we do not said the hacking was a
calling for the resignation come alone." matter of "national security"
of Guatemalan Attorney The hackers targeted gov- and they are responding.
General Consuelo Porras, ernment webpages with The attacks come after 13
saying she has tried to un- floods of automated traffic days of protests and road
dermine the popular vote until they crashed, a tech- closures.
that made progressive Ber- nique known as distributed Thousands of Indigenous
People block the Inter-American Highway in San Lucas nardo Arévalo the presi- denial-of-service attacks. people have demanded
Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. dent-elect. Webpages for Guatema- that Porras and prosecutors
Associated Press Posting on the social media la's judicial branch, Depart- Rafael Curruchiche and

By SONIA PERÉZ D. and ties described as a national website X, formerly known ment of Agriculture and the Cinthia Monterroso, as well
DANIEL SHAILER security incident, hackers as Twitter, hackers under General Secretary of the as Judge Fredy Orellana,
Associated Press affiliated with the activ- the handle @AnonGTRe- president were targeted, all resign, accusing them of
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — In ist group Anonymous dis- loaded announced, among others. Some pag- endangering the country's
what Guatemalan authori- abled multiple government "This October 14 #Anony- es were quickly reinstated, democracy.q