2023-10-13 12:36:37
And teacher stabbed to death this Friday noon and several students were injured when a man entered a high school in Arras, in Pas de Calais, two and a half hours from Paris. Two students are in serious condition.
The suspect yelled “Allah Akhbaer” (Allah is great) and was detained by the police.
Until now, no claim has been made for the act, which is considered a terrorist attack and the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office intervenes.
President Emmanuel Macron was speaking alongside Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne. The National Assembly suspended its functions in solidarity with the victims.
French police at the scene. Denis Charlet/ AFP
The suspect has been identified as a 20 year old chechencon radicalization form S. The anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office was summoned and began a process for “murder in relation to a terrorist company, attempted murder in relation to a terrorist company”, and “association of terrorist criminals with a view to preparing crimes of harm to people.
A feared scenario
This was one of the scenarios most feared by the French governmentwhich on Thursday night deployed 11,000 police officers to protect the Jewish community and institutions and due to fear of a terrorist attack, as a consequence of the war in Gaza.
France has 13 dead in the Hamas attacks and 17 missing, the highest number of victims since the series of attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Paris cafes in 2015.
This Friday, around 11 in the morning, this knife attack occurred at the institute Gambetta of Arras.
The suspect’s brother was arrested, according to a police source.
“The perpetrator is being questioned by the police.”
A video shows the attacker on Twitter in the school yard, with several people trying to control him.
Samuel Paty, a teacher who spoke in class about cartoons of Muhammad, was slit and decapitated at the school gate on October 16, 1920 in Eragny sur Oise, a suburb of Paris. The school was in Conflans Sainte Honore. The perpetrator was a Chechen refugee killed by the police after the attack.
The government had banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations in France on Thursday night. But at night, people gathered in Place de la République in Paris to protest the bombings in Gaza. They were repressed with gas until dawn today, with bullfights and hydration trucks.
In France The largest Muslim and Jewish communities in Europe live there.
In Britain four Jewish schools were closed due to fear of attacks.
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