2023-10-14 05:45:10
President Emmanuel Macron, surrounded by the Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, speaks to the press after a visit to the Gambetta high school in Arras, October 13, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
And the dreaded attack happened. Friday October 13, shortly before 11:30 a.m., the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was alerted to the stabbing of a literature teacher at the Gambetta high school, in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) . A former student, of Russian nationality, Mohammed M., 20 years old, on file S since October 2, killed a teacher named Dominique Bernard, before spreading fear in the establishment, seriously injuring two other people.
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The tenant of Place Beauvau warns the President of the Republic of the drama that has just played out. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, on her way to Orléans where she is to launch the 33rd intercommunal convention, turns back, while Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by Gérald Darmanin and the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, takes off aboard the presidential Falcon heading to Arras.
A pool of blood in the parking lot greets the head of state who, after speaking with educational leaders, confides his terror at the sight of “the barbarity of Islamist terrorism”In “a context that we all know”.
“There is a link, undoubtedly, between what happened in the Middle East and the act”, from the attacker, means Gérald Darmanin, Friday evening on TF1. Since the launch of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel six days earlier, Paris has feared that the conflict in Israel would bring tensions to French soil.
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More than a hundred anti-Semitic acts were recorded by the Interior Ministry between Saturday and Thursday. They are increasing as rocket fire rains down on the Gaza Strip, in response to the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel. Some of them are “very serious, threats”specifies the Minister of the Interior on Wednesday, going to the Ozar-Hatorah Jewish school in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), to announce the strengthening of security around Jewish educational establishments and places of worship. “When radical Islamism strikes, it also hits schools”he warns.
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Within the Jewish community, Friday the 13th took on a terrifying aspect. “Friday is the day of prayer for the Muslim world. The Islamist cells made it a day of action: Samuel Paty, the Bataclan…”feared near the MondeThursday, Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF). “Being Jewish in France means living with these threats for twenty years. The dispute [en Israël] is a catalyst »he whispered, explaining that families around him had decided not to take their children to school.
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