The suspected attacker, Mohammed Moguchikov, was arrested by police.
Paris:
France will deploy 7,000 soldiers after a Chechen man stabbed a teacher and seriously injured three other adults at a school in the northeastern town of Arras, the Elysee presidential palace said Saturday. It was announced on . President Emmanuel Macron condemned Friday’s attack as an act of “Islamist terrorism” in Arras, which has a large Jewish and Muslim population.
Deployment of the soldiers is expected to be completed by Monday evening.
France raised its alert level to the highest on Friday following a crisis and security council chaired by Macron.
President Macron said another “attempted attack” in another region had been thwarted by security forces.
After visiting the school, President Macron said, “This school suffered the brutal attack of Islamist terrorism,” adding that the victim’s courageous attack to stop the attackers “probably saved many lives.” ” he said.
The suspected attacker, Mohamed Mogchikov, who is in his 20s, was arrested by police.
Mr. Moguchikov is from Russia’s predominantly Muslim region of Chechnya in the southern Caucasus. A police source told AFP that the suspect was already registered in France’s national national register, known as “Fish S”, as a potential security threat, and that France’s domestic intelligence agency He was said to have been under electronic and physical surveillance by DGSI.
Mogchikov shouted in Arabic, “Allah Akbar!” (God is great), according to preliminary elements of the study.
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