A teacher was killed and several people injured by a knife-wielding man in a French school today .
The attack took place in a high school in Arras , in the north of the country.
The attacker, Bfm-Tv reports, shouted "Allah Akbar" , information later confirmed by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin .
The man was stopped by the police: «A police operation is underway at the Gambetta high school in Arras. The perpetrator was stopped by the police,” Darmanin wrote on X.
The attacker, as far as we know, is around twenty years old, is Chechen and is a former student of the school. He was classified as "S", meaning at risk of radicalization, and therefore monitored by the security services . His brother would also have been arrested, the investigation has been entrusted to the anti-terrorism department.
(Unioneonline/L)
