French military servicemen of ongoing French military operation "Operation Sentinelle" stand guard in front of the Gambetta high school during its' evacuation after a bomb threat in Arras, northeastern France on October 16, 2023, three days after a teacher was killed and two other people were severely wounded on October 13, in a knife attack at the Gambetta high school. The Gambetta high school of Arras was evacuated after a bomb threat, an AFP journalist reported on October 16, 2023 just days after a man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults on October 13 at a school in northeastern France, with prosectors opening a probe into a suspected act of terror. (Photo by Denis Charlet / AFP) (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)
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French School Evacuated Again: Bomb Threat Days After Fatal ‘Day of Jihad’ Knife Attack

The French high school which saw a suspected Islamist terror attack last week was evacuated again Monday morning over a possible bomb threat.

The Gambetta High School in Arras, northern France was not due to have any classes taught on Monday but was open to the public as part of a national day of mourning for two teachers killed in terror attacks in the country, with a minute of silence observed in all schools across France today. Yet the institution was evacuated on Monday morning after a bomb threat was received by internet message, France’s Le Figaro reports.

A French military serviceman of ongoing French military operation “Operation Sentinelle” stands guard in front of the Gambetta high school during its’ evacuation after a bomb threat in Arras, northeastern France on October 16, 2023, three days after a teacher was killed and two other people were severely wounded on October 13, in a knife attack at the Gambetta high school. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)
A French police officer and a police dog enter the Gambetta high school during its’ evacuation after a bomb threat in Arras, northeastern France on October 16, 2023 (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)

The bomb squad was deployed and the school reopened to the public in the early afternoon.

Tributes are being given today as planned to Samuel Paty, the French school teacher who was murdered by a radical Islamist on this day three years ago. His day of remembrance took on heightened importance after another teacher was killed last week on Friday, again — it is suspected — by a radicalised Muslim. Three others were also injured.

Paty was beheaded outside his own school in a Paris suburb by a teenage Chechen Muslim refugee, the culmination of a campaign against the teacher because she showed his pupils a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad while teaching a class on tolerance and freedom.

While the motive for the killing of Dominique Bernard, who was slain with a knife last week and was also allegedly attacked in the neck by a Chechen Muslim refugee, is not yet conclusively proven, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said today in her tribute to the slain teachers: “three years ago, Islamist terrorism struck savagely… three years later the barbarity and [counter-enlightenment] have struck again… barbarism will never prevail in the face of knowledge, the Republic will never bend in the face of terrorism”.

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