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.
Prosecutors say counterterrorism authorities are investigating the stabbing, and the suspect and several others are in custody.
The “attack emergency” threat has allowed the French government to temporarily mobilize the military to protect public places among other measures.
A mother of two sons at the school said she is dealing with how to comfort her children who witness the incident.
“As adults, we are managing with difficulty to take a step back, but for them, they’re children,” mother Emily Noge said. “They initially thought it was an exercise, so keeping things separate, to say that weve passed from an exercise to something dramatic, is very tricky for them.”
From Breitbart:
At the school Saturday morning, police stood guard as adults and children arrived. Classes were canceled, but the school reopened for those who wanted to come together or seek support. One mother said she came with her 17-year-old daughter in a show of defiance against extremism, and to overcome the fear of returning to a site where children were locked down for hours after the stabbing.
