The school in northern France where a teacher was killed with a knife in an apparent Islamist attack last week was evacuated on Monday after a bomb threat, according to AFP.
Dozens of staff and students left the primary school in Arras around 10:30 am local time (9:30 am in Lisbon).
Authorities told AFP that the bomb threat was made over the internet.
Last week’s attack, carried out by a 20-year-old former student of Russian nationality accused of radicalism and which injured three people, was described by President Macron as “Islamic terrorism”.
The case particularly shocked teachers, who had already been affected three years ago by the murder of a teacher, Samuel Paty, who was beheaded on October 16, 2020 for showing caricatures of Mohammed in lessons.
Fears of an attack led to the evacuation of the Louvre and then the Palace of Versailles on Saturday on a false alarm, but today both facilities reopened at normal times.
Since his arrest, the perpetrator of the attack, Mohammed Mogouchkov, who witnesses said shouted “Allah Akbar”, “has not explained himself”, a police source told AFP.
Mogouchkov was recently under surveillance by the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), according to Gérald Darmanin, because of links to his father, who was also investigated for radicalization and deported in 2018, and to his brother, who was arrested for involvement in a planned attack on the Élysée Palace.
According to a police source, he arrived in France in 2008 and, according to French authorities, was born in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, which is predominantly Muslim, but could not be legally deported because he entered the country before the age of 13. as emphasized by Gérald Darmanin.
Since the attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 (12 deaths), a series of ‘jihadist’ attacks in France have killed more than 260 people.
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Source: DN
