France deploys 70,000 police, shuts Paris museums ahead of protests
Disappointed tourists poked their heads through the Louvre’s locked gates on Saturday, shut off from the Mona Lisa as galleries and museums across Paris closed as a precaution ahead of fresh demonstrations. “When we came, we thought there could be a problem but not that the museum would be…
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