France deploying 7,000 troops across country following deadly school stabbing

Counter-terrorism authorities are investigating the stabbing, and the suspected assailant and several others are in custody, prosecutors said.

The school reopened on Saturday (Jeffrey Schaeffer/AP)

France will mobilise 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 radicalisation, the president’s office said.

Some children and personnel returned to the Gambetta-Carnot school in the northern city of Arras as it reopened on Saturday morning, after a school-day attack on Friday that rattled France in a context of global tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.