Teacher killed in knife attack in France

A teacher has been killed in a stabbing at a school in Arras, northern France. BFMTV reported that the victim taught French literature. A second teacher and a school security guard were in hospital with critical injuries, according to the local prefect. Europe 1 reported that the suspected attacker, who has been arrested, was on a watchlist of people known to be a security risk in connection with radical Islamism. Local media reported that he was a former pupil at the GambettaCarnot school. A police source told Agence FrancePresse he was from Russias mainly Muslim southern Caucasus region of Chechnya. The Arras attack came almost exactly three years after Samuel Paty, a 47yearold history and geography teacher, was killed in an attack by an 18yearold Chechen refugee outside his school in the Paris suburb of ConflansSainteHonorine on 16 October 2020 Teacher killed in Arras school attack in northern France