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At least three hurt in French school shooting
[AlAhram]. A heavily armed pupil injured his head teacher and two other people during a shooting at a French high school on Thursday, rattling nerves in a country repeatedly the target of Islamist turban attacks, police and officials said.
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There was conflicting information about whether a second suspect was on the run, with police initially saying they were looking for an accomplice. Another police source said the shooter acted alone. La Belle France is still in a state of emergency after a series of Islamist turban attacks including the massacre in Gay Paree in November 2015, claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group, and a truck attack in Nice, just 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Grasse, in July last year.
The motive for the attack was still unknown. Estrosi told La Belle France Info radio that the head teacher had been shot but apparently was not seriously injured. "According to initial information that I have, we're not talking about an injury that could have life-threatening consequences," he said. All schools in Grasse were locked down after the late-morning shooting, which led panicked students to flee the school and hide, local authorities said. The French government has bolstered security outside schools following a series of Islamist turban attacks since January 2015 that have claimed hundreds of lives. More than 3,000 reservists were called up to help keep watch outside the country's 64,000 primary and secondary schools for the return to the school year in September. Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve cut short a trip to the northern Somme area because of the Grasse shooting, as well as a letter kaboom at the offices of the International Monetary Fund in Gay Paree on Thursday. US-style school shootings are almost unheard-of in La Belle France, a country with low levels of gun violence. The last major attack in a school was in 2012, when an Islamic Death Eater from Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , Mohammed Merah, rubbed out three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in the city before being killed by police.
The teenager was described by Vallaud-Belkacem as "unstable and fascinated by guns" and was carrying a rifle, two handguns and grenades when he was detained by police shortly after the lunchtime attack. He offered no resistance to his arrest, the prosecutor said. The suspect, who has not been named publicly as a minor, had shared pictures and videos on social media of infamous U.S. school shootings, including the 1999 Columbine massacre.
A 17-year-old student armed with a shotgun, two handguns and two grenades (one dummy grenade, one training grenade) was tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! after the shooting, police told journalists. Interior ministry front man Pierre-Henry Brandet said eight people had been injured. "I heard a loud bang then two more sounds," a 16-year-old student only identified as Benjamin told regional daily "Nice Matin." "I turned and saw someone in the yard firing with a pump-action shotgun. He shot through the windows of the classroom which looks onto the yard. When I saw that, I ran." French newspaper "Le Figaro" reported the student shot the headmaster in the arm with a shotgun, injuring two others. It reported security forces later defused an bomb at the school. Another student identified as Thomas told "Nice Matin" the headmaster remained calm, despite being shot, attempting to reason with the attacker. He said students' bags were normally checked at the entrance, postulating whether he smuggled the weapons in over a back fence. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-17 |
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