French policy is in limbo. The horror has once again affected France. A few days before the commemoration of the assassination of Samuel Paty, an armed man struck at a high school in Arras. A teacher was stabbed to death. Two people were seriously injured.
The young man in his twenties, of Chechen origin, on file for radicalization (on file S) was arrested. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has opened an investigation into assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise. Faced with the shock, the head of state disrupted his program to go there. The Prime Minister also canceled her trip to return to Paris. The deputies paused their work.
Emmanuel Macron in Arras
The President of the Republic will go to Arras, the Elysée announced on Friday. The Minister of Education Gabriel Attal will also join him there, according to his entourage. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, for her part, canceled a trip to Orléans in front of the Intercommunalités de France to return to Paris, her entourage told AFP.
MPs on arrest
The deputies suspended their work underway at the National Assembly to express their solidarity with the educational community and the victims of the attack.
“We have just learned of terrible events which took place in a school in the city of Arras, we are waiting to know what happened, but the National Assembly is already expressing its solidarity and his thoughts, with regard to the victims, their loved ones and the educational community as a whole”, said Vice-President Naïma Moutchou, who adjourned the current session in the hemicycle, after consultation with the political groups and the government.