2023-10-13 21:43:42
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin spoke of “a link” between the situation in the Middle East and “the act” of the author of the Islamist attack in which a teacher and three other people were killed injured in a high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) on Friday.
“According to our information, there is unfortunately a link between what undoubtedly happened in the Middle East and the act,” declared the minister, interviewed on TF1. Contacted by AFP, his entourage did not want to detail the nature of this link, explaining that an investigation was underway.
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“According to our information, there is a link, undoubtedly, between what happened in the Middle East, and this action” according to Gérald Darmanin pic.twitter.com/63Kf5JwqRd— TF1Info (@TF1Info) October 13, 2023
An unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against Israel left at least 1,300 dead on the Israeli side on Saturday, triggering Israeli strikes in retaliation on the Gaza Strip, which left nearly 1,800 dead according to health authorities.
“There is an extremely negative atmosphere”
“Today, it was not a Jewish community place that was attacked, it was a high school, among another place that could have been attacked in France,” added Gérald Darmanin. “Since Saturday, since the massacres that took place in Israel, we have arrested 12 people near schools, near places of worship, who sometimes had weapons, who were going to act,” the minister said. , evoking in particular the arrest on Friday outside a mosque in Yvelines of a man known for radicalization and armed with a knife.
However, “there is no clear threat,” the minister said. “There is an extremely negative atmosphere, particularly due to the call for acts,” he said.
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