France is mobilising 7,000 soldiers and increasing its alert status to “emergency attack” level after the death of a teacher in the northeast town of Arras, stabbed to death Friday by a former student with a record of Islamic radicalisation.

President Emmanuel Macron made the decision after convening an emergency meeting of his security cabinet on Friday night.

Macron has described the stabbing attack, which left two other staff members at the school seriously injured, as “Islamist terrorism.”

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Let’s avoid more terrorism by sending troops there to shoot them.”

    I hate to break it to yall, but America spent 20 years figuring out that doesn’t work that well.

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t really work like that in France, especially in the military, this is more a display of force than anything else imho