By John Leicester, Samuel Petrequin and Jeffrey Schaeffer, Associated PressRiot police officers stand guard in front of the Gambetta high school after a man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded two others in Arras, northern France, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Antiterror 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.
The suspected assailant was arrested. The National Police force identified him as a Russian national of Chechen origin who was born in 2003. The French intelligence services told The Associated Press the man had been closely watched since the summer with tails and telephone surveillance and was stopped as recently as Thursday for a police check that found no wrongdoing.
Macron then went to see students from the school in an adjacent building. School attacks are rare in France, and the government asked authorities to heighten vigilance at all schools across the country. Friday’s attack had echoes of Paty’s slaying on Oct 16, 2020 — also a Friday — by an 18-year-old who had become radicalized. Like the suspect in Friday’s stabbings, the attacker had a Chechen background.
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