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.”

  • Xia@jlai.lu
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    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…

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      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.

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      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.

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        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

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          “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.

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

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                They do accomplish things. This attacks test and measure (implicitly) reaction time and let that nation know that the attacker is capable of reaching, and therefore attacking that point.

                Scrambling/readiness state shows:

                That enemy/unidentified hostiles will be intercepted, and destroyed if necessary.

                Sends a message that the country’s (or whosoever) defenses are on alert and will react swiftly to any perceived threat.

                Sends a message that the intruding enemy is not wanted and will not be tolerated.

                it also provides an unexpected drill for the militia. So bonus points I guess

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

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      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.