French Finance Ministry Briefly Evacuated After False Bomb Threat: Police

Gendarme stand with LBD guns at the city's main square, close to the prefecture, after a protest march to support Yvan Colonna's family after the assault of the pro-independence activist in an Arles' prison, in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on March 8, 2022. Pascal Pochard-Casablanca/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS—The French finance and economy ministry in Paris was partially evacuated briefly on Thursday following a false bomb alert, but staff are now returning to work, a police official said.

The alert and evacuation took place while French President Emmanuel Macron was presenting his election programme to French and international reporters in another part of Paris.