A SCHOOL where a teacher was stabbed to death by a knifeman shouting “Allahu Akbar” has been evacuated following a bomb threat.
Staff and pupils from the Gambetta high school in Arras, northern France, had to flee classrooms just days after the shocking murder.
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Dominique Bernard, 57, was knifed to death at the school
Pictures show police officers standing guard outside the school as a sniffer dog entered the building following the alert at around 10.30am local time (8.30am GMT).
It comes as schools across the country are set to hold a moment of silence after a literature teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people hurt on Friday in an attack by a former student.
Dominique Bernard, 57, was brutally killed by the fanatic after a former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for “Day of Jihad” following the ongoing bloodshed in Israel.
The attacker is alleged to be a 20-year-old “ISIS terrorist” and Chechen refugee named Mohamed Mogouchkov.
His elder brother is serving time in prison for links to Islamist militant networks.
According to multiple reports, Mogouchkov shouted “Allahu Akhbar” before using two knives to stab victims.
The French government heightened the national threat alert and ordered up to 7,000 soldiers to be deployed by Monday night and until further notice to bolster security and vigilance around France.
Counterterrorism authorities are investigating Friday’s stabbing, and the suspected assailant and several others are in custody, prosecutors said.
The suspect had been under recent surveillance by intelligence services for radicalisation.
French President Emmanuel Macron said today: “We have acted, we are acting and we will continue to act to ensure that our School remains a sanctuary for our students and for all those who work there.
“Stronger than pain, pain and sorrow, the school must remain this bulwark against obscurantism. It will remain so.
“Because to blind hatred, we will always oppose the inextinguishable thirst to teach. The thirst for learning. The thirst to live free.”
The horror knife attack in Arras came almost three years after another teacher, Samuel Paty, was killed outside Paris,
He was beheaded by a radicalised Chechen later killed by police.
A knifeman was seen in the car park of the French school with a man wielding a chair
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