A teacher was killed this Friday, October 13, following a knife attack in the Gambetta-Carnot school campus, in Arras. The suspect was arrested by the police.
A man allegedly entered the premises of the Gambetta high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) this Friday, October 13 in the morning, and stabbed several people. A teacher died and at least two other people, including a teacher and a technical agent, were seriously injured according to a union source cited by Le Parisien. One of them would be in a state of absolute emergency.
The attack took place in front of the establishment, according to information from Voix du Nord. “We were leaving class to go to the canteen, we saw the guy with two knives attacking the teacher who had blood on him, third grade students testified. He tried to calm him down and try to calm us down. protect. He told us to leave, we didn’t really understand, we ran and others went back upstairs.” The students were confined to their classrooms before the police arrived on site. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced that the perpetrator was arrested by the police.