French High School Where Teacher Was Killed Evacuated over Bomb Alert
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A high school in Arras, northern France, where a French teacher was fatally stabbed last Friday, was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb alert, according to a Reuters photographer who was at the location.
Last Friday’s attack, which prompted the government to put France on its highest security alert, came as an extremist atmosphere had developed, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said over the weekend.
While there were no classes scheduled on Monday at the Lycee Gambetta high school, its doors were open for students and staff to pay tribute to teacher Dominique Bernard, who was killed by a 20-year-old man.
Last Friday, the attacker, a former student whose elder brother is serving time in prison for links to extremist militant networks, fatally stabbed Bernard and wounded three other people.
After the bomb alert on Monday, teachers, some of them in tears and holding one another, left the building, as did students who had come to lay flowers in tribute to Bernard.
As a police bomb squad arrived, teachers and students gathered in the courtyard of a building opposite their school as civil protection personnel comforted them.
A minute of silence is planned for later in the day in schools across the country.
