Dozens of staff and pupils left the high school in Arras following the bomb threat. Teacher Dominique Bernard, 57, was allegedly killed by Mohamed MogouchkovA school in northern France where a teacher was stabbed to death by a knifeman who allegedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' was today evacuated after a bomb threat.
Mogouchkov reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' before launching his attack on Bernard, 57, on Friday, prompting a French president Emmanuel Macron to call for a 'ruthless' approach towards extremists in France. A French police officer and a police dog enter the Gambetta high school during its evacuation after a bomb threat in Arras on Monday. But a bomb disposal team, including sniffer dogs, found no sign of a bomb and several hundreds of students and teachers could be seen going back into the high school this afternoon.
Friday's attack has further increased nervousness in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish populations and has been on the alert for violence since Hamas launched its attack on Israel, killing 1,300 Israelis. Paty's killer and the suspected Arras assailant share a background in Russia's North Caucasus region.
French military servicemen, deployed as part of the ongoing 'Operation Sentinelle', stand guard in front of the Gambetta high school during its evacuation after a bomb threat in Arras, northeastern France today 'He turned to me and said,"Are you a history teacher? Are you a history teacher?",' said the teacher, who then hid behind a glass door.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Gambetta high school in Arras on Friday, October 13, following the knife attack They added that Macron has told the interior minister to take a 'special approach to young men between the ages of 16 and 25 from the Caucasus'. Three years ago, Paty was beheaded by 18-year-old Abdullah Anzorov, a radicalised refugee born in Moscow to ethnic Chechen parents. Chechnya is a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's Caucasus region.
There has also been controversy over the French government's ban on pro-Palestinian protests following the Hamas attacks, with the Left claiming it was no longer possible to protest for peace but the Right saying the measures did not go far enough.
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