POLICE have evacuated Place Vendome in the centre of Paris after a delivery van was left abandoned and bomb squads are at the scene.
Police have sealed off Place Vendome in central Paris after a delivery van was left abandoned.
The authorities are ensuring the area is safe and it continues to be blocked off.
People close by to the location have taken to Twitter to warn others to avoid the area.
According to one French source, a delivery lorry has been abandoned at the site.
Place Vendome is a square in the 1st arrondissement in Paris and is a popular location for shopping and restaurants.
A protest outside the Ministry of Justice was disrupted because of the bomb alert.
Paris is on high alert after the country has been hit by various terrorist attacks in the past year.
Yesterday, France remembered the 130 victims of the Paris terror attacks that caused devastation in the city two years ago.