The anti-terrorist alert continues in France: the institute where a teacher was murdered on Friday is evacuated due to a bomb warning

The institute in northern France where a teacher was murdered on Friday was evacuated this Monday morning due to a bomb alert, after the country raised the anti-terrorist alert and after a weekend also marked by other evacuations in emblematic points such as the Louvre Museum in Paris or the Palace of Versailles.

The attack on the Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras left Dominique Bernard dead and three other people injured. The alleged perpetrator, identified as Mohamed M. and booked by the authorities for his possible danger, he was immediately detained, within an investigation that has also led to eight other arrests.

The return to classes this Monday has been even more complicated at the center due to a bomb warning that has forced the evacuation of workers and students, according to police sources cited by Franceinfo and who have confirmed the deployment of more security personnel in the area. to rule out possible threats.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, who will chair a new meeting of the security leadership on Tuesday, published this Monday on social networks a message of tribute to the deceased teacher and to the entire educational community.. This Monday marks precisely three years since the murder of another teacher, Samuel Paty, in an Islamist attack on the outskirts of Paris.

“Last Friday, when (Bernard) was trying to protect his students, he fell under the blows of Islamist terrorism,” emphasized Macron, who praised the “heroic” behavior of the victim, “until the last minute,” as already he did on Friday after traveling to the scene of the incident.

“The terrorists know it: there is no Republic without school, without the patient learning in your classes of the critical spirit and the values of freedom, equality, fraternity and secularism that forge citizens,” the president stressed.