‘Several people held’ after teacher fatally stabbed in French school

Police forces cordon off the area near the Gambetta high school, seen in background, after a man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded three others in Arras, northern France

France’s national counterterrorism prosecutor has said that several people have been detained in an investigation into a school stabbing that left one teacher dead and three people wounded.Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said the wounded include a teacher, a security agent and a cleaning worker.He identified the attacker as Mohammed M, who was born in Russia in 2003. Mr Ricard said the suspected attacker had been under surveillance for radicalism.

French police officers from the forensic service stand in front of the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France A colleague and a fellow teacher identified the dead teacher as Dominique Bernard, a French language teacher at the Gambetta-Carnot high school. The attack happened almost three years after another teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a radicalised Chechen near a Paris area school.Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention.

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