Islamist terrorism struck a French school this Friday, killing a schoolteacher. stabbed to death by a young Chechen in an attack that closely resembles the traumatic stabbing death of Samuel Paty almost three years ago.

The attack occurred around 11:00 local time (09:00 Moscow time), when the perpetrator –identified Figaro as Mohamed Mogouchkova Chechen, born in Russia in 2003 and signed by the security services for Islamist radicalism, entered the Gambetta High School in Arras (north) and attacked several workers before being arrested.

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French teacher dies with throat cut, two injured: Kitchen worker in very serious condition and another teacher in serious condition.

President of France, Emmanuel Macron noted that another attack was neutralized today. While he did not provide details, he was referring to the arrest of another man who was seen armed with a knife outside the institute after leaving a mosque in the town of Limaye, south of the Paris region.

During the attack in Arras, several witnesses said the perpetrator – a Chechen born in Russia 20 years ago and a former student at the center – shouted “Allah is greatest” in Arabic as he stabbed his victims.

In photographs taken with mobile phones from the windows of the educational center, the author is seen in the courtyard, where several workers are looking.

One of the teachers who crossed paths with the killer later said that he understood the situation because a young Chechen began to follow him, asking if he was a history teacher, which The memory of Samuel Paty was awakened in him.

Macron, who immediately traveled to Arras with the interior and education ministers, praised the courage shown by teachers and workers, which enabled them to save “many lives.”

Macron stressed that the professor was “killed in a cowardly and barbaric manner,” but neither the country nor its citizens are going to “succumb to terror.”

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) took over the investigation. and entrusted the coordination of investigations to the Anti-Terrorism Police Department (Sdat).

Law enforcement made four arrests: the alleged gunman, his 16-year-old brother, who was arrested near another high school, and two other people whose identities were not released. The attacker is a member of youChechen family who came to France in 2009.

When the story of the author and his family came to light, the attack took on political overtones as the family was subject to expulsion in 2014 due to their Islamic radicalization, although this measure was ultimately not implemented by then Interior Minister Manuel Valls after pressure from several associations.

Years later, the father of the family was finally expelled, and the request for political asylum for the rest of the family was rejected, but he still remained in France, despite being illegal.

Intruder It was ordered by the intelligence services since earlier this month as a radical and potentially dangerous element of internal security. Yesterday he was checked, but nothing suspicious was found.

In 2021, the case for his expulsion was processed, but it was not continued because He came to France when he was under 13 years old. which is an obstacle to their deportation.

His older brother is currently in prison on two charges, one for plotting an attack and the other for promoting terrorism, after he was arrested in 2019 at age 17 as part of a five-member cell that plotted to kill police officers.

The attack bears similarities to the October 16, 2020, murder of high school teacher Samuel Paty outside the institute where he taught in the Paris area, after he was persecuted for teaching caricatures of Muhammad, which had generated so much controversy in the fundamentalist media. .

Then the author was 18-year-old Russian-Chechen Islamist terrorist whose family took refuge in France. In this case, he was shot and killed by police.

Macron referred to the fact that this new attack took place at an educational center “almost three years after” the murder of Paty, who was beheaded with a large knife. Following the events, the French gendarmerie installed surveillance devices in dozens of high schools.

(According to EFE)