Arras school where teacher was stabbed to death in terror attack is evacuated over ‘bomb threat’ as France on high alert

A SCHOOL where a teacher was stabbed to death by a knifeman shouting “Allahu Akbar” has been evacuated following a bomb threat.

Staff and pupils from the combined Gambetta middle and high school in Arras, France, were forced to abandon classrooms amid the scare.

AFP

A French police officer and his dog enter the Gambetta high school following a bomb threat[/caption]

It comes as schools across the country are set to hold a moment of silence after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people hurt last week in an attack by a former student.

Dominique Bernard, a literature teacher in his 40s, was brutally killed by the fanatic after a former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for “Day of Jihad” following the ongoing bloodshed in Israel.

French President Emmanuel Macron said: “We took action, we are taking action and we will continue to take action to ensure that school remains a sanctuary for our students and for all those who work there.

“To blind hatred, we will always oppose the inextinguishable thirst for teaching. The thirst for knowledge. The thirst for living free.”