French President Emmanuel Macron decided to deploy up to 7 thousand members of the Sentinelle force to the country due to the knife attack on a school in the city of Arras recently. The channel reported this BFMTV According to information received from the Elysee Palace.
Macron held a meeting on security issues in the country.
It is known that the head of state has decided to mobilize up to seven thousand Sentinelle soldiers, they are planned to be deployed on the evening of Monday, October 16.
On Friday, October 13, a 20-year-old man attacked staff at Gambetta High School in the city of Arras in the Pas-de-Calais region with a knife. The attacker was detained. It turned out that the attacker was on the list of radical Islamists monitored to prevent terrorist attacks.
The soldiers who are now mobilized will serve in French schools until a separate instruction from Macron.
Before this he was known to be in Arras. detained Eight people in case of attack on high school.
Previously residents of Chelyabinsk organized patrols after cases of attacks on children.