The high school in Arras, northern France, where a teacher was fatally stabbed on Friday was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb alert, a Reuters photographer on site saw.
A police explosives expert team arrived on site.
Teachers and students of the Lycee Gambetta high school gathered in the courtyard of a building opposite their school, as civil protection personnel comforted them.
French military servicemen of ongoing French military operation “Operation Sentinelle” stand guard in front of the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France on Oct. 16, 2023. AFP via Getty Images
Police officers stand in front the Gambetta high school during a bomb alert on Oct. 16, 2023 in Arras, northern France. AP
French police and firefighters stand in front of the Gambetta-Carnot school, where French teacher Dominique Bernard was killed on Oct. 16, 2023. REUTERSA 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a French teacher and wounded two other people in an attack on Friday at Lycee Gambetta in an attack that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as “barbaric Islamic terrorism.”
France was put on its highest security alert following the attack.
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