PARIS: The Louvre was to reopen in Paris on Saturday, 24 hours after a soldier patrolling the museum shot a machete-wielding attacker, believed to be an Egyptian who entered the country on a tourist visa a week ago.

The incident on Friday has thrust security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months before elections in France, with authorities saying it was a "terrorist" assault.

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