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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jeffrey Schaeffer and Angela Charlton

France is deploying 7,000 troops after a deadly school stabbing by a suspected Islamic radical

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France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack by a former student suspected of Islamic radicalization, the president’s office said Saturday.

Some children and personnel returned to the Gambetta-Carnot school in the northern city of Arras as it reopened Saturday morning, after a schoolday attack Friday that rattled France in a context of global tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.

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