11:27 – The attacker had pledged allegiance to Daesh
According to information from BFMTV and Le Parisien, the suspect in the Arras attack pledged allegiance to Daesh in an audio recording, he also made a “very marginal” reference to the situation in Palestine, according to BFMTV. The 24-hour news channel indicates that the suspect’s sister described to investigators “a hyper-radicalized family climate”, she would have described her brother as a “monster” denouncing his act of “horror”. The young woman was in police custody, which was lifted last night.
10/16/23 – 11:46 p.m. – Classes resume Tuesday afternoon for students at the Gambetta high school in Arras
END OF LIVE – Classes will resume at 2 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, at the Gambetta high school in Arras, where literature teacher Dominique Bernard was killed last Friday. The establishment had reopened since Saturday to students and teachers, who could thus access a psychological unit. This Monday, October 16, however, the middle school had to close its doors at the end of the morning after a bomb threat.