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France is deploying 7,000 troops after a deadly school stabbing by a suspected Islamic radical (apnews.com)
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France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack by a former student suspected of Islamic radicalization, the president’s office said Saturday.

Some schoolchildren, parents and personnel returned to the Gambetta-Carnot school in the northern city of Arras as it reopened Saturday morning to reconnect and seek support, after the attack Friday that rattled France in a context of global tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.

Counterterrorism authorities are investigating the stabbing, and the suspected assailant and several others are in custody, prosecutors said. The suspect had been under recent surveillance by intelligence services for radicalization. Court documents viewed by The Associated Press show he is from the Ingushetia region in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, which neighbors Chechnya. Authorities had initially identified him as Chechen.

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[–] Monkeyhog@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

7000 troop because of a stabbing? Seems a little bit of overkill.

[–] SpudTech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We can only logically assume that they are trying to cover a large land mass or protect several cities or towns and areas at the same time and that these people will not work 24/7 and likely be rotating on and off of schedules.

This becomes far more believable when you start taking in the deployment into consideration.

This all being said I do not condone anything that Hamas and Israel has done, it is a saddening Affair all around.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The guy attended the school where he attacked those poor teachers, but somehow because he's Muslim, the president and the "premier flic de France" both say it is a terrorist attack linked to what happened in middle east. A day before they were all mouths out like "please don't import the conflict here"