The man armed with a knife, Mohamed M., who killed a teacher and seriously injured two people in a high school in Arasin northern France, he was known for his links with Islamists and was checked by police authorities yesterday Thursday without, however, being followed up or accused of anything, French media reports, noting at the same time that authorities have been monitoring his phone communications for the past few days, which have not yielded any evidence related to today’s attack.

According to French media, one of his four brothers was arrested in 2019 at the age of 17 in Strasbourg as a member of an Islamist organization that was preparing attacks on police forces in Paris.

Another of his brothers was also arrested today.

Mohamed M. was born in 2003 in Russia and arrived in France in 2008.

In 2021 he requested political asylum but his request was not accepted. But because he had entered France before the age of 13 he could not be deported under French law.

The high school of Aras is already visited by the French president Emmanuel Macron accompanied by the government representative and the French interior minister.

The police authorities, finding that many photos and videos of the attack are already circulating on the Internet, they asked the citizens to stop their traffic immediately “to facilitate the work of the authorities but also out of respect for the victims”.

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