After the knife attack in Arras this Friday and against a background of fear of importing what is happening in Palestine, the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne decided to pass France on alert “emergency attack”.
France is alert “Emergency attack” alert after the knife attack in Arras, in the north of the country where a teacher was killed and two people seriously injured.
The French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne “decided to enhance the vigipirate posture in terms of emergency attack”, following a security meeting at the Élysée around President Emmanuel Macron. The “Emergency attack” level can be put in place in the immediate follow -up of an attack or if an identified and not located terrorist group enters into action.
According to the French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, there is a link between what probably happened in the Middle East and the act of the assailant of Arras.