The days follow one another and are similar at the Palace of Versailles. Sunday, October 22 at noon, the site was evacuated for the seventh time in eight days, after a new bomb threat. Two hours later and once the intervention of the police was over, the gates reopened, but the visitors had to be patient.
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No fear in the former home of Louis XIV: potential suspicious packages of the week did not reject Cyril and his girlfriend, who came from Montpellier.
“ Now, I’m only in Paris this weekend. It was the occasion, the weather was nice today and the castle is often closed for two hours. Afterwards, we knew it was going to reopen, so we came anyway. We have the impression that these are hoaxes for eight days straightso no particular fears. »
The only problem is that now several hundred people are queuing to enter. “ I think people are willing to wait anyway », agrees Salomé, in the first third of the queue with her family.
This is not the case for everyone. Alex, who came with a few friends, decided to turn around. For them, waiting was no: “ We saw that there were quite a few people there, and a bomb threat scares me a little. Waiting in such a long line to finally be evacuated, I don’t think it’s good. Instead, we’ll try to walk around Versailles for a bit, enjoy the nice weather, and then we’ll see. »
In the surrounding area, the terraces are almost full, to the delight of restaurateurs.