A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by the French security services over suspected radicalisation stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded two other people in northern France on Friday, authorities said.
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,” or “God is great” in Arabic. Martin Doussau, a philosophy teacher at Gambetta-Carnot, said the assailant was armed with two knives and appeared to be hunting specifically for a history teacher. Paty taught history and geography.“I was chased by the attacker, who ... asked me if I teach history. , ‘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.
The suspect’s brother was arrested in the summer of 2019 by the DGSI – France’s counter-terrorism intelligence service – on suspicion of being involved in the planning of an attack that was thwarted and is in jail, French intelligence said.Prosecutors said they were considering charges of terror-related murder and attempted murder against the suspect.
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