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☆ France to sue student it accuses of falsely accusing principal of forcibly removing headscarf
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Joseph Ataman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Paris CNN —A French high school student is being sued by the government for falsely accusing her former principal of assaulting her after he made her remove her headscarf on school premises, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. Last year France banned the abaya – a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women – despite warnings its prohibition was discriminatory. The student refused and “looked to intimidate” the school principal by accusing him of having physically assaulted her while removing her headscarf, Attal said. Attal said that her accusations were shared on social media, leading to “unacceptable” death threats against the school principal. In 2022, lawmakers backed a ban on wearing the hijab and other “conspicuous religious symbols” in sports competitions.

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☆ Factbox-Attacks in France in Recent Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Dec. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

Here are some other attacks that have taken place in France in recent years:- Oct 13, 2023 - One teacher was killed and another wounded in a knife attack at a high school in northern French town of Arras on Friday. - June 9, 2023 - A Syrian national wounded four children and two pensioners in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy. Francois Hollande, president at the time, said the hostage-takers had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. The attacker told police he was answering an appeal by Islamic State. Islamic State said it was responsible.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Samuel Paty, Prophet Mohammad, Charlie Hebdo, Mickael Harpon, Francois Hollande, Frenchman, Charlie Hebdo’s, Michel Rose, Frances Kerry, Nick Zieminski Organizations: PARIS, Syrian, Police, Paris police, Security, Islamic, Islamic State, Belgian Locations: Paris, Afghanistan, France, French, Arras, Alpine, Annecy, Reims, Nord, Kurdish, Nice, Pakistan, Islamic State, Tunisian, State

☆ France boosts air, rail security amid rise in bomb hoaxes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

French police stand guard in front of the Chateau de Versailles (Palace of Versailles) as tourists enter again after the Palace was evacuated for security reasons, in Versailles, near Paris, France, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Clotaire Achi/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - France, already on its highest security alert, is to boost security at airports around the capital and on trains after a wave of bomb hoaxes, the transport minister said on Sunday. Alongside the heightened risk, there were "people who are playing with fear", he said, referring to the wave of fake bomb alerts that have hit transport networks, schools and cultural centres over the last week. Since last Wednesday, there have been 70 bomb hoaxes in airports in France, he said, adding that almost all of these alerts were sent from the same Swiss-based email address. Beaune told France Inter that hoaxes are not "small jokes, they are serious crimes" and that they will be investigated.

Persons: Chateau, Clotaire, Clement Beaune, Layli Foroudi, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, ., SNCF, France Inter, Thomson Locations: Versailles, Paris, France, Arras, Europe, Beaune, Swiss

Paris CNN —Six airports in France were forced to evacuate on Wednesday for security reasons. Lille airport in northern France said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the airport was being evacuated because of a bomb threat, with security operations on site. CNN affiliate BFMTV reported, citing a police source, that the airports in Nantes and Beauvais, outside Paris, had also been evacuated for security reasons. The venue was forced to evacuate on Tuesday due to a suspicious item, and over the weekend due to a bomb threat. France raised its security alert level to the highest possible following a knife attack at a school in the northern city of Arras last week.

Persons: Bron Organizations: Paris CNN —, CNN, BFMTV, Lyon Locations: France, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Beauvais, Paris, Lyon, Bron, Nice, of Versailles, Arras

☆ Suspect in killing of French teacher put under formal investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

French police and firefighters stand in front of the Gambetta-Carnot school, where French teacher Dominique Bernard was killed in a knife attack on Friday, after the school was evacuated following a bomb alert in Arras, northern France, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A 20-year-old man suspected of stabbing a teacher to death and wounded three people at a French school has been placed under formal investigation for murder in connection with a terrorist organisation, the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said. The main suspect in the Friday attack, known as Mohammed M, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said before the man was placed under investigation on Tuesday evening. Mohammed M's 16-year old brother was put under formal investigation for complicity in murder in relation with a terrorist organisation and their cousin was put investigation for voluntarily abstaining from preventing a crime, the office said in a statement on Wednesday. Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; editing by Robert BirselOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gambetta, Carnot, Dominique Bernard, Pascal, Mohammed M, Jean, Francois Ricard, Mohammed M's, Gerald Darmanin, Dominique Vidalon, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Islamic State, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, Israel

☆ Suspect in Fatal Stabbing of French Teacher Pledged Allegiance to Islamic State -Prosecutor
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

PARIS (Reuters) - A 20-year-old man who fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded three others in an attack at a school in the French city of Arras on Oct 13 pledged allegiance to the Islamic state, said French anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard.

Persons: Jean, Francois Ricard Organizations: PARIS Locations: French, Arras

☆ Macron says 'Islamist terrorism' rising in Europe, all states at risk
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TIRANA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Europe is seeing a rise of "Islamist terrorism" and all states are threatened, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a visit to Albania, after Islamist killings of a teacher in France and two Swedish football fans in Belgium. Macron spoke a day after a 45-year-old attacker, who identified himself as a member of Islamic State and claimed responsibility in a video posted online, killed the two Swedes fans in Brussels. All European states are vulnerable, and there is indeed a resurgence of Islamist terrorism," Macron said after talks with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana. "Here, we reiterate our solidarity with our Belgian friends," Macron said. "Israel's security, the fight against all terrorist groups, as well as the peace process and the political solution, are all interconnected," he said.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Florian Goga, Fatos, Hedy Beloucif, Marine Strauss, Ivana Sekularac, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Islamic, Albanian, Edi Rama, Thomson Locations: TIRANA, Europe, Albania, France, Belgium, Islamic State, Brussels, Paris, French, Arras, Tirana, Israel, Pristina

☆ French school where teacher was stabbed evacuated over bomb alert
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Pascal Rossignol | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] French police and firefighters stand in front of the Gambetta-Carnot school, where French teacher Dominique Bernard was killed in a knife attack on Friday, after the school was evacuated following a bomb alert in Arras, northern France, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Acquire Licensing RightsARRAS, France, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A high school in Arras, northern France, where a French teacher was fatally stabbed on Friday, was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb alert, according to a Reuters photographer who was at the location. After the bomb alert on Monday, teachers, some of them in tears and holding each other, left the building, as did pupils who had come to lay flowers in tribute to Bernard. As a police bomb squad arrived, teachers and students gathered in the courtyard of a building opposite their school as civil protection personnel comforted them. Reporting by Pascal Rossignol; Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Toby Chopra, Sudip Kar-Gupta and Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gambetta, Carnot, Dominique Bernard, Pascal Rossignol, Gerald Darmanin, Lycee Gambetta, Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Bernard, Ingrid Melander, Toby Chopra, Sudip Kar, Gupta, Bernadette Baum Organizations: REUTERS, Lycee, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, ARRAS, Israel

☆ France's Macron warns Iran over escalation
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

French President Emmanuel Macron, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and officials arrive at the site after a teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack at the Lycee Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, northern France, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron warned his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in phone call on Sunday against any escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Macron's office said. "The president of the republic warned President Raisi against any escalation or extension of the conflict, especially to Lebanon," Macron's office said in a statement. "Given its relations with Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has a responsibility in this respect. Iran must do everything possible to avoid a regional flare-up," it added.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Gerald Darmanin, Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, Ebrahim Raisi, Raisi, Leigh Thomas, Jan Harvey Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Rights, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, Israel, Lebanon, Iran

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats, police said. Paris police said officers searched the museum after it received written bomb threats. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesThe former royal palace at Versailles also received bomb threats, and the palace and its sprawling gardens were being evacuated while police examine the area, according to national police. Macron urged the people of France to “stay united.”___Schaeffer reported from Arras, France. Associated Press journalists Thomas Padilla in Paris and Nicolas Garriga in Arras, France contributed to this report.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron's, Mona Lisa, Gerald Darmanin, Mohammed M, Gambetta, Carnot, ″, Emily Noge, ’ ’ It’s, ‴, Samuel Paty, Macron, “, ” ___ Schaeffer, Thomas Padilla, Nicolas Garriga Organizations: PARIS, Louvre Museum, Police, police, Gare de Lyon, Counterterrorism, The Associated Press, Education Ministry, Associated Press Locations: Paris, Versailles, France, Israel, Louvre, Gare, Arras, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Chechen

☆ France mobilises 7,000 troops for extra security patrols
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] French police secure the area after a teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack at the Lycee Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, northern France, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered 7,000 soldiers to be mobilised for increased security patrols, his office said on Saturday, a day after a teacher was stabbed to death in an Islamist attack. France was put on its highest security alert on Friday after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the city of Arras in northern France. The security alert comes as France hosts the Rugby World Cup and prepares to face South Africa on Saturday evening in their quarter-final. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday the Arras attack bore a link to events in the Middle East, where Israel is conducting a military offensive to root out Hamas fighters after their deadly rampage into Israel last Saturday.

Persons: Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, Emmanuel Macron, Gerald Darmanin, Leigh Thomas, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Rights, Rugby, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, South Africa, Paris, Israel

ARRAS, France (AP) — 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, the president’s office said Saturday. Counterterrorism authorities are investigating the stabbing, and the suspected assailant and several others are in custody, prosecutors said. The suspect is a Chechen who had attended the school and had been under recent surveillance by intelligence services for radicalization. The “Attack Emergency” threat posture allows the government to temporarily mobilize the military to protect public places among other measures. For many in France, the attack echoed the killing of another teacher, Samuel Paty, almost exactly three years ago near his Paris area school.

Persons: Gambetta, Carnot, Emmanuel Macron, Samuel Paty, Gerald Darmanin, “ Allahu akbar, Dominique Bernard, Macron, “, ”, ” ___, Nicolas Garriga, John Leicester Organizations: —, Counterterrorism, Associated Press, Prosecutors, ” ___ Charlton Locations: ARRAS, France, — France, Arras, Israel, Chechen, Paris

☆ France school stabbing: Here's what we know about the Arras attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Persons: Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, BFM, He's, he's, Emmanuel Macron, Gabriel Attal, Richard Lough Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Rights, Gaza, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, French, Russian, Israel, Paris

☆ Arras, France school knife attack: Teacher killed and several people injured
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Joseph Ataman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris CNN —A teacher was killed Friday and several people injured in a knife attack at a public school in Arras, northern France, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. A worker at the school is in critical condition after receiving several stab wounds and a second teacher was wounded less seriously, BFMTV reported. The attack occurred in the Gambetta High School at around 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m. According to BFMTV, the suspect is a 20-year-old man of Chechen origins who cried “Allahu Akbar” during the attack. French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to the public school where the attack occurred, according to the Elysee Palace.

Persons: Paris CNN —, BFMTV, Pascal Rossignol, Gerald Darmanin, “ Allahu Akbar ”, Emmanuel Macron Organizations: Paris CNN, CNN, BFMTV, Gambetta High School, French Locations: Arras, France

☆ Teacher killed in knife attack in school in northern France
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Pascal Rossignol | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] French police and fire fighters secure the area after a teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack at the Lycee Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, northern France, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Acquire Licensing RightsARRAS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A teacher was killed in a knife attack in a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office. The regional Pas-de-Calais authority said the suspected assailant, who also wounded a second teacher and a school security guard in the attack, was arrested. The suspect was a Russian-born Chechen and former student of the Lycee Gambetta high school where the attack happened, a police source said. BFM TV also said the person killed was a French language teacher, while a sports teacher was stabbed and injured.

Persons: Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, Allahu Akbar, Martin Doussaut, Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Samuel Paty, Mohammad, Layli Foroudi, Michel Rose, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Tassilo Hummel, Benoit van Overstraeten, Ingrid Melander, Richard Lough, Deborah Kyvrikosaios Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Police, Reuters, du, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, ARRAS, Calais, Russian, French, Israel, Gaza, Paris, Chechen

☆ Teacher killed in knife attack in school in northern France - BFM TV
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] French police and fire fighters secure the area after a teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack at the Lycee Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, northern France, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack in a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday, BFM TV said. Local police confirmed there had been a knife attack. Citing a police source, BFM TV reported the attacker was about 20 years old and could have been a former pupil. BFM TV said the person killed was a French language teacher, while a sports teacher was stabbed and injured.

Persons: Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, BFM, Allahu Akbar, Gerald Darmanin, Michel Rose, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Tassilo Hummel, Ingrid Melander, Richard Lough Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Rights, Local, Police, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, French

☆ Attacks in France in recent years
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Here are some other attacks that have taken place in France in recent years:- June 9, 2023 - A Syrian national wounded four children and two pensioners in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy. - Oct. 29, 2020 - An attacker with a knife killed three people and wounded several others at a church in the southern city of Nice. - March 23, 2018 - A gunman killed three people in southwestern France after holding up a car, firing on police and taking hostages in a supermarket. - July 26, 2016 - Two attackers killed a priest and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France before being shot dead by police. - Nov. 13, 2015 - Paris was rocked by multiple gun and bomb attacks on entertainment sites around the city, in which 130 people were killed and 368 wounded.

Persons: Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, Emmanuel Macron, Samuel Paty, Prophet Mohammad, Charlie Hebdo, Mickael Harpon, Francois Hollande, Frenchman, Charlie Hebdo’s, Michel Rose, Frances Kerry Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Rights, Syrian, Police, Paris police, Security, Islamic, Islamic State, Belgian, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, Alpine, Annecy, Reims, Nord, Paris, Kurdish, Nice, Pakistan, Islamic State, Tunisian, State

☆ Why paying off your student loans won't get easier anytime soon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Student-loan borrowers are entering uncharted territoryThe Education Department has never had to reenter 28 million people into payments at the same time. Plus, federal servicers' technology may not be up to the task. In contrast, federal student-loan servicing has been contracted out to five companies, and the government doesn't have the resources to fully keep tabs on the industry. "So there really were deep-rooted structural problems in the loan programs on the policy design but also on the execution side," Kvaal said. As the years went on, the GAO continued to identify flaws in student-loan programs that were hurting borrowers.

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☆ UK's Prince Harry: I want my father and brother back
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales (C), Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (R) and Britain's Prince Harry visit the Canadian National Vimy Memorial during a commemoration ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, in Vimy, near Arras, northern France, on April 9, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Huguen/POOLLONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry said his troubled relationship with the royal family "never needed to be this way" and he wants to get his father King Charles and his brother "back", in an excerpt from an interview with broadcaster ITV released on Monday. "I would like to get my father back; I would like to have my brother back." They have since criticised how they were treated as members of the royal family, including an accusation by Harry that his brother William, Prince of Wales, screamed at him during a meeting to discuss his future. Both interviews will be broadcast on Jan. 8, two days before publication of Harry's autobiography titled "Spare".

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