A knife attack left one dead and two injured at the Gambetta-Carnot school campus in Arras (Pas-de-Calais).
Gathering, wearing a black armband, town hall in blue, white, red, in France, teachers show their solidarity after the knife attack, Friday October 13, in the Gambetta school campus in Arras (Pas-de -Calais) which left one dead and two injured.
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In Amiens, a town in Hauts-de-France like Arras, teachers will gather on Friday evening in the square in front of the town hall, France Bleu Picardie learned, in tribute to the teacher killed in Arras, stabbed by an Islamist assailant this Friday Morning.
Amiens town hall will be illuminated from Friday evening, and until Tuesday evening inclusive. It will be lit in the colors of the national flag in blue, white, red. A ceremony is also announced on Monday. In Nîmes, in Gard, teachers are wearing a black armband on their arms this Friday, as a sign of mourning and solidarity, noted France Bleu Gard Lozère.
One dead and two injured
The knife attack left one dead and two seriously injured late Friday morning at the Gambetta high school, in the city center of Arras, in Pas-de-Calais. A former student of the establishment, file S, stabbed two teachers and a technical agent around 11 a.m. The dead man is a teacher, a French professor at the college. There are two injured, another teacher as well as a technical agent. One of them is in absolute emergency.
The main suspect, a Chechen born in Russia and aged 20, shouted “Allah akbar”, a source close to the investigation confirmed to franceinfo. Four people, including the main suspect and his 16-year-old brother, were taken into custody. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation for assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise, attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise and terrorist criminal association.