PARIS (AP) — Protesters repeatedly disrupted a concert by the Israel Philharmonic orchestra in Paris, brandishing flares and sounding alarms that caused brief panic in the crowd and led musicians to leave the stage. Authorities said four people were detained.

Pro-Palestinian activists also demonstrated outside Thursday night’s performance at the Paris Philharmonic concert hall, the latest example of tensions over the war in Gaza spilling over into protests in Europe.

The French government decried the orchestra disruption as antisemitic and an attack on freedom of cultural expression.

Inside the concert hall, witnesses described a performance punctuated by eruptions of chaos, and solidarity in the audience for the musicians trying to finish the show.

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