2023-10-13 12:41:00
A man armed with a knife killed a teacher in France You may be interested in: Alert in the West: satellite images reveal an increase in military cooperation between Russia and North Korea
The events occurred at the city’s Gambetta high school, wrote the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on the social network X (formerly Twitter), specifying that the attacker was arrested.
The message from the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin
According to these sources, the perpetrator of the attack shouted “Allah Akbar” (“Allah is Great”), a formal expression of faith used by Muslims and used by the perpetrators of the jihadist attacks that shook France in the last decade.
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The author is of Chechen origin and was registered by the authorities in the national security registry, indicated another Police source.
No students were injured. The other two injured are a security agent, who received several stab wounds; and another teacher, according to various sources.
The events occurred at the Gambetta high school in the city of Arras, northern France.
The students and staff of the high school were confined to the center. “Remain calm and follow the instructions to facilitate the return to a normal situation,” the prefecture wrote in X.
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The Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) announced the opening of an investigation for murder and attempted murders in relation to a terrorist company, among others.
Security forces cordoned off the area around the center, where firefighters and lifeguards were also deployed. The parents of the students were also stationed in front of the high school.
The other two injured are a security agent, who received several stab wounds; and another teacher
A philosophy teacher who witnessed the attack, Martin Dousseau, described a movement of panic during a break between classes, when students found themselves face to face with the gunman.
“I wanted to go down to intervene. “He turned towards me, chased me and asked me if he was a Geography and History teacher,” said the man, who specified that the victim was a French teacher at the center.
“We barricaded ourselves, then the police arrived and immobilized him,” he said.
These events occur almost three years following the murder on October 16, 2020 in Conflants-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, of Professor Samuel Paty, 47 years old.
Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, stabbed and beheaded him for having shown caricatures of Muhammad in class during a course on freedom of expression. The police shot him down.
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