Teacher killed, 2 people wounded in suspected terrorist attack at French school

PARIS — A man armed with a knife killed a teacher at the high school in northern France that he once attended, and critically wounded another teacher and a security guard Friday, authorities said, an attack being investigated as potential terrorism amid soaring global tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas.

French anti-terror prosecutors said they were leading the investigation into the attack at the Gambetta high school in the city of Arras, some 115 miles north of Paris. They said the suspect, who was arrested, was being investigated on charges including terror-related murder and attempted murder.

National police said the suspected assailant was a Russian national of Chechen origin. The French intelligence services said the suspect had been closely watched since the summer with tails and telephone surveillance and was stopped as recently as Thursday for a police check, which found no wrongdoing.

Sliman Hamzi, a police officer who was one of the first on the scene said the suspected attacker, a former student at the school, shouted, "Allahu Akbar" “God is great!” in Arabic.

Hamzi said he was alerted by another officer who was passing in front of the high school and called in. He “was shouting, ‘Someone is attacking with a knife!’” Hamzi said

Hamzi said he rushed to the school and saw the victim who died lying on the ground outside the school and the attacker being taken away.

“Colleagues arrived quickly but unfortunately couldn’t save the victim,” Hamzi said.

School attacks are rare in France. President Emmanuel Macron was heading to the scene along with the interior and education ministers, and the government asked authorities to heighten vigilance at all schools across the country.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that the suspected attacker had been arrested.

Julie Duhamel, an official with the the Unsa teachers’ union in the Pas-de-Calais region, which includes Arras, told Franceinfo that teachers had noted the suspect’s radicalization “a few years ago.” Franceinfo, quoting a police source, said the the suspect’s brother was also arrested.

Parents said pupils were still confined to the locked-down school more than two hours after the attack.

Friday’s attack came three years after a teacher was beheaded outside a school in suburban Paris. Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was slain Oct. 16, 2020 — also a Friday — by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized.

Martin Doussau, a philosophy teacher at the Gambetta high school, said the attacker appeared to be hunting for a history teacher.

“I was chased by the attacker who ... asked me if I teach history. [He said:] ‘Are you a history teacher, are you a history teacher?’” said Doussau, who recounted how he barricaded himself behind a door until police used a stun gun to subdue the attacker.

“When he turned around and asked me if I am a history teacher, I immediately thought of Samuel Paty,” Doussau told reporters.

The attack came amid heightened tensions around the world over Hamas’ weekend attack on southern Israel and Israel’s military response, which have killed hundreds of civilians on both sides. There have been calls in Muslim nations for mass protests after Friday prayers over Israel’s intense bombing campaign in Gaza.

Darmanin on Thursday ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts since the Hamas attack.

France is estimated to have the world’s third-largest Jewish population, after Israel and the U.S., and the largest Muslim population in Western Europe.

A vice president of France’s lower house of Parliament, Naima Moutchou, said the National Assembly “expresses its solidarity and thoughts for the victims, their families and the educational community as we learn that a teacher has been killed and several others have been injured.″

Source https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-10-13/france-teacher-killed-suspected-terrorist-attack-school

The world would've been a better place without the people with black dots on their forehead

Taylor94:
Na them


Black dot on their forehead

I hate head slammers

Na them......na them

On the other thread, News has it that they have set aside 99 lashes for CRonaldo just cos baller touched a female fan who is one of their own.


Those people sha!!!........More grease to the elbows of Israeli soldiers. If you know you know

World jihad day..
Crazy people

When you hear 'Allah Akbar " know that a terrorist has killed a soul he didn't create on the instruction of his prophet

Iranian law is pathetic

GOFRONT:
Na them......na them

On the other thread, News has it that they have set aside 99 lashes for CRonaldo just cos baller touched a female fan who is one of their own.


Those people sha!!!........More grease to the elbows of Israeli soldiers. If you know you know

A time will come when The world will actually see every Muslim as a potential terrorist.

Na dem

I run for cover anytime I hear ”allahwakubomb”!

The word ”peace” is far from that religion.

Religion of peace indeed.
Even with only one Muslim left on earth....

France. We warned you. Stop accepting these terrorists!

Religion of piss turning humans to psychopaths.

Religion of peace spreading peace

RevDesm0ndJuju the kano terrorist your brothers never fail.

na dem

awon why are christians supporting jews gang

But when una wan kill na jews and christians una dey group together

insidelife22:
A time will come when The world will actually see every Muslim as a potential terrorist.

every sane human does already

Israel well done...


Very wic ked and use less people.

They are stu pid cowards if confronted with that violence they dish out.

Them for come out come attack Israel as Israel dey deal with them in Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsLQFvLgxXw?si=6HaBVXyv4mm5BM3R

Terrorist Attack In French School - Teacher Killed after suspect shouted Allahu Akhbar

Blood sucking demons on the prawl. Every Muslim is a potential terrorist