{"id":14203,"date":"2023-10-14T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/france-deploys-7000-troops-for-extra-patrols-after-teacher-slain-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-14T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T18:53:07","slug":"france-deploys-7000-troops-for-extra-patrols-after-teacher-slain-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/france-deploys-7000-troops-for-extra-patrols-after-teacher-slain-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"France deploys 7,000 troops for extra patrols after teacher slain | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered up to 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.<\/p>\n

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 at a school in the city of Arras in northern France.<\/p>\n

Macron’s office said the soldiers would be mobilised by Monday evening until further notice as part of an ongoing operation that regularly conducts patrols in major city centres and tourist sites.<\/p>\n

The Louvre museum, a major tourist draw in the French capital, was evacuated and closed after receiving a bomb alert, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Camille Chaize said, adding that checks were being made to establish there was no danger.<\/p>\n

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The latest security alert comes as France hosts the Rugby World Cup and less than a year before Paris welcomes the Olympic Games, which include plans for an unprecedented opening ceremony outside a stadium and a parade down the river Seine.<\/p>\n

Chaize said security measures were already at their highest level at the stadium used for the rugby matches but extra patrols would be added at a fanzone nearby and in central Paris.<\/p>\n

France has been targeted by a series of Islamist attacks over the years, the worst being a simultaneous assault by gunmen and suicide bombers on entertainment venues and cafes in Paris in November 2015.<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry said the security situation would be reviewed at a meeting on Saturday afternoon to decide whether additional measures are necessary, Chaize said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n