The Mont-Saint-Michel, the small tidal island home of a monastery and abbey off the Normandy coast and one of the most popular tourist sites in France, was briefly evacuated on Sunday after a man made threats to attack police there before apparently escaping a vast manhunt involving helicopters and police reinforcements.
FrenchFrench authorities ordered tourists and others to leave the Mont Saint-Michel abbey and monument in western France on Sunday after a visitor apparently threatened to attack security services, reports CBC News.
The national gendarme service said the man made the threat on one of the shuttles serving the site, on a peninsula in the English Channel. An official with the gendarme service said the threat was vague, but prompted authorities to order an evacuation.
Police are searching for the man who made the threat.
A shuttle service official said large crowds were being evacuated or turned away and a police helicopter is flying overhead, but the atmosphere remained calm.
