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Louvre Museum in Paris evacuated after threat while France on high alert following deadly stabbing

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The Louvre Museum in Paris evacuated all visitors and employees out of concern for a terrorist attack. 

Louvre facilities sounded alarms and shepherded individuals out of the museum Saturday morning after receiving a written threat.

As people quickly fled, police surrounded the iconic landmark and swept the area.

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The Louvre Museum is seen in Paris, France. (Kristy Sparow/Getty Images For David Yurman)

France is currently experiencing a high threat alert level after a widely publicized attack by a radicalized former student.

A Chechen immigrant on France’s extremist watch list allegedly stabbed a teacher to death Friday morning and wounded two others in a suspected terror attack that the country’s president called an assassination.

It happened outside a school in the city of Arras, about 115 miles north of Paris, near the border with Belgium, and a suspect is in custody, according to France’s interior minister Gerald Darmanin.

FRANCE ARRESTS 24 FOR ANTISEMITIC ACTS SINCE HAMAS ATTACKED ISRAEL

French President Emmanuel Macron (C), flanked by French education and youth minister Gabriel Attal (C-R) and French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (C-L), talk to the press after a visit to the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France. (LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

French authorities said they suspect terror as a motive in the attack, which comes amid a raging conflict in Israel following a terror-fueled attack by Hamas terrorists based in the Gaza Strip.

French President Emmanuel Macron said during a news briefing that police also stopped a second attempted attack after the stabbing, which he said shows “the barbarism of Islamic terrorism.”

On Thursday, Darmanin ordered a country-wide ban on demonstrations in support of the Palestinians. 

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stands next to French President Emmanuel Macron as he talks to the press after a visit to the Gambetta high school in Arras. A man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults at a school in northeastern France, with prosecutors opening a probe into a suspected act of terror.  ((Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images))

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At least 24 people have been charged with antisemitic acts in the country since the Hamas attack on Israel last week.

Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com

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