Deadly knife attack at school being investigated as terror

 

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Deadly knife attack at school in France  

 

Daniel Nilsson,  

 

Niklas Gustafsson  

 

Updated 17.50 | Published 11.53  

 

A teacher has died and at least two more people were injured in the stabbing. Photo: Michel Euler/AP  

 

A man armed with a knife has attacked several people at a secondary school in France.  

 

One teacher has died and at least two people are seriously injured.  

According to information to the French media, the perpetrator shouted "Allahu akbar".  

 

It was during Friday morning that the man attacked several people at a secondary school in the city of Arras in northern France, Le Parisien reports. 

 

According to the French television channel BFMTV, a teacher has died in the attack and at least two people have been seriously injured. According to the channel's information, the perpetrator must have also shouted "Allahu akbar".  

 

The perpetrator was arrested and the local police announced that the immediate danger was over. 

 

"The police have had an operation at a high school in Arras. The perpetrator has been arrested," writes France's interior minister, Gérald Darmanin.  

 

The fatal stabbing is being investigated as terrorism. Photo: Michel Euler / AP  

 

Terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation  

 

According to information in the French media, the arrested perpetrator should be in his 20s and a former student at the school. The perpetrator's brother is said to have also been arrested in the vicinity of another school, but he is said not to have been armed, according to Le Parisien. 

 

According to sources for the newspaper, the man should have already been under investigation by the police due to radicalization. The national prosecutor against terrorism has now started an investigation into murders and attempted murders linked to terrorist crimes.  

 

More arrests  

 

During the afternoon, the police in the area issued two more warnings at other secondary schools in Arras. Just before 2:15 p.m., a person was arrested who had forced his way into the Robespierre high school with a suspicious backpack. The police bomb squad searched the school for explosives.  

 

At 4:15 p.m., the county police announced that they had carried out a check and arrested a person in the vicinity of a third high school. According to Le Parisien, the person must have been known to the police in the past and carried a kitchen knife.

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