France has declared an alert of maximum security amid fears of an “imminent threat of a terrorist attack”.
The alert reads: “Attack emergency. Vigilance and maximum protection in the event of an imminent threat of a terrorist act or directly after an attack.”
It comes after authorities said a man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalisation stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded three other people Friday in northern France.
The attack was being investigated by anti-terror prosecutors amid soaring global tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas. It also happened almost three years after another teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a radicalised Chechen near a Paris area school.
President Emmanuel Macron said France had been “hit once again by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism.”
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