A man armed with a knife and shouting “Allah Akbar” killed a teacher and seriously injured two people in a high school in Arras, in the north of France on Friday morning, we learned from the prefecture and a source policewoman.
The attacker was arrested by the police, said the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on X (ex-Twitter).
No high school student was injured, according to a first police source.
The National Assembly announced that it was suspending its work in solidarity with the victims, and President Emmanuel Macron must go there.
Among the two injured was a security guard who suffered several stab wounds, and a teacher, said a second police source.
These facts take place almost three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old teacher beheaded on October 16, 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Paris region, around ten days after showing caricatures of Mohammed to his students during lessons on freedom of expression.
The 18-year-old attacker, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, was killed by the police.
More details will follow.
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