 <picture class="article__media"> <img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2023/10/16/0/0/8192/5464/664/0/75/0/5cd2bdf_5596152-01-06.jpg" alt="A French military serviceman of ongoing French military operation Operation Sentinelle stands guard behind a cordonned-off area of the Gambetta-Carnot school during an evacuation after a bomb threat, in Arras on October 16, 2023." sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw" width="100%" height="auto"> </picture> <noscript> <img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2023/10/16/0/0/8192/5464/664/0/75/0/5cd2bdf_5596152-01-06.jpg" alt="A French military serviceman of ongoing French military operation Operation Sentinelle stands guard behind a cordonned-off area of the Gambetta-Carnot school during an evacuation after a bomb threat, in Arras on October 16, 2023."> </noscript> <figcaption class="article__legend" aria-hidden="true">A French military serviceman of ongoing French military operation Operation Sentinelle stands guard behind a cordonned-off area of the Gambetta-Carnot school during an evacuation after a bomb threat, in Arras on October 16, 2023. <span class="article__credit" aria-hidden="true">DENIS CHARLET / AFP</span> </figcaption> 

A school in northern France where a teacher was stabbed to death in an apparent Islamist attack last week was on Monday, October 16, evacuated following a bomb threat, an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist said.

On October 13, <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/10/13/live-teacher-killed-in-knife-attack-at-school-in-arras_6169913_8.html">Mohammed M. killed a literature teacher</a> outside the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras and wounded three other members of the teaching staff, leaving one of them seriously injured.&nbsp;The attacker has been detained by the police and France has opened an anti-terrorist investigation.

On Monday, dozens of staff and pupils left the combined middle and high school around 10:30 am local time. Authorities told AFP the bomb threat had been made online.

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 <p class="author__detail"> <span class="author__name">Le Monde with AFP</span> </p> 

On Monday, dozens of staff and pupils evacuated the combined middle and high school where a teacher was stabbed to death in an apparent Islamist attack last week.{ai:summary}<p>In Arras, France, a school that recently experienced an Islamist attack was evacuated after receiving a bomb threat. Last week, a teacher was killed and others were injured in the attack. The authorities are conducting an anti-terrorist investigation and the threat was made online.</p>

Arras terror attack: School evacuated after bomb threat

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