(Lille) 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 from police sources.
The attacker was arrested by the police, said the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on X.
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 were 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.