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France to deploy police at schools for spot bag searches in wake of stabbings

Police officers at a school in Bordeaux. AFP

Police will begin carrying out random bag searches for knives and other weapons in schools, in a bid to fight an increase in violent attacks, the French education minister has announced.

Speaking to French broadcaster BFMTV on Friday, education minister Elisabeth Borne said: "I want us to be able to organise, together with the prefect, the prosecutor and the representative of the education system, regular bag searches at the entrance of schools."

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