Overview

• A typed note was discovered Friday inside the cathedral near candle stands by a sacristan.
• The message urged closing on 11–12 October and claimed knives had been hidden by “foreign visitors” who would “make a carnage,” according to reports.
• Cathedral security carried out on-site checks without evacuating visitors, and police said Friday night’s searches lifted doubts about any immediate danger.
• Before Saturday’s opening, a joint inspection by cathedral security and the Paris police public order unit ruled out risk, and the monument opened to visitors.
• Cathedral officials are considering filing a complaint, and a similar threat in April previously led to an inquiry for threat-related and false-information offenses.