Left: A still image from cellphone video that recorded part of the attack. Right: Riot police officers patrol the area after a man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded two others at a high school in northern France, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 in Arras. Antiterror prosecutors said they were leading the investigation into the attack at the Gambetta high school in the city of Arras, some 115 miles north of Paris. (Reuters, AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
John 16:2 … Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
Important Takeaways:
- Knife-wielding attacker shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ and kills teacher in French school amid Hamas-Israel war: report
- A Chechen immigrant on France’s extremist watchlist allegedly stabbed a teacher to death Friday morning and wounded two others in a suspected terror attack, according to reports from the country.
- It happened outside a school in the city of Arras, about 115 miles north of Paris, near the border with Belgium, and a suspect is in custody, according to France Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
- A bystander recorded part of the attack on cellphone video. It appears to have been taken from an upstairs window and shows a violent altercation in a paved courtyard. It shows a group of men struggling – one of whom is holding a chair who falls down.
- The attacker kicks him as onlookers warn, “He has a knife,” according to a Reuters translation of the clip.
- Another man picks up the chair from the one who fell and appears to try and scare off the attacker, but he slips. The assailant then jumps on him, swinging several times at his face and chest. The victim stands up, stumbles for a few feet and then collapses as the clip ends.
- One person died and at least one other suffered injuries.
- The French reports noted that the knife attack happened just shy of three years to the day of the beheading of another French teacher, Samuel Paty, who was also killed by a radicalized Chechen.
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