Macron calls France stabbings 'barbaric terrorism'
Oct 14, 2023
Paris [France], October 14: French president Emmanuel Macron has condemned the "barbarity of terrorism" after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a teacher to death outside a school in the northeastern French town of Arras on Friday.
According to police, the teacher was killed in front of the main entrance to the school after being stabbed in the throat and chest before the assailant entered the building and continued his attack
Two more people, another teacher and a technical assistant, were seriously injured but none of the pupils were said to have been hurt.
The assailant, who police say shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) during the attack, has been arrested and France's national anti-terror prosecution office has opened an investigation, pointing to a suspected terror motive for the attack.
Source: Times of Oman
