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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

France is mobilising 7,000 soldiers and increasing its alert status to "emergency attack" level after the death of a teacher in the northeast town of Arras, stabbed to death Friday by a former student with a record of Islamic radicalisation.

President Emmanuel Macron made the decision after convening an emergency meeting of his security cabinet on Friday night.

Macron has described the stabbing attack, which left two other staff members at the school seriously injured, as "Islamist terrorism."

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[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 53 points 11 months ago

Goddamn what is going on in France...

[-] Xia@jlai.lu 59 points 11 months ago

As a French : yes this is horrible but the mess is worldwide and remember that 1 death in a country of 67 millions people is not the end.

Oh and of course we get used to it…

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 52 points 11 months ago

And watch how they're gonna use that to further spy on us and restrict our freedoms, even though the guy was already monitored and still managed to slip through.

[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 20 points 11 months ago

I more mean why are they activating the military units and what not the murder and what not is understandable if bad the weird part is 1 death spiralling into the military mobilisation that happened at least to me.

[-] nyoooom@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Because of the ongoing Israel-Palestine situation, it's probably much more likely that extremists might commit terrorist attacks, and we have had a history of attacks going by waves, so they're being careful in advance

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

"Let's avoid more terrorism by sending troops there to shoot them."

I hate to break it to yall, but America spent 20 years figuring out that doesn't work that well.

[-] nyoooom@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It doesn't really work like that in France, especially in the military, this is more a display of force than anything else imho

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

So security theater. It accomplishes nothing

[-] Xia@jlai.lu 16 points 11 months ago

Because there is a high risk of escalation while the conflict between Israel et Palestine is ongoing

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah, Germany hasn't activated soldiers yet, but the police in all states is on high alert and direct protection of Jewish buildings was bumped up. If there was a murder, we would probably too activate more units for responses.

[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 points 11 months ago

Southern neighbours here, we've been doing a simlar thing for the last 15 years (same number of men too: 7000) and the result have been pretty great thus far. As expensive as this is going to be I think Macron made the right call.

Source: Article on "operation safe streets" [EN], Wikipedia page on "operazione strade sicure" [IT]

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

If it helps any at all, I just checked, between 1990 and 2000 France dealt with one terrorist attack every ~13.53 days. Your people could survive that you can survive this. Hope that helps.

[-] Strawberry 1 points 11 months ago
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