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| Killing of Teacher and Hamas Assault Set a Jittery France on Edge | Killing of Teacher and Hamas Assault Set a Jittery France on Edge |
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| The terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel and the retaliatory strikes in Gaza had already put the French authorities on edge, pushing them to jack up security at Jewish sites and ban pro-Palestinian protests. | The terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel and the retaliatory strikes in Gaza had already put the French authorities on edge, pushing them to jack up security at Jewish sites and ban pro-Palestinian protests. |
| Then, last Friday, just three days before the country was set to mark the somber anniversary of a teacher’s gruesome beheading by an Islamist extremist, an eerily similar attack hit at home as a man used a knife to kill a teacher and injure three other people at a school in northern France in what officials called an Islamist terrorist attack. | Then, last Friday, just three days before the country was set to mark the somber anniversary of a teacher’s gruesome beheading by an Islamist extremist, an eerily similar attack hit at home as a man used a knife to kill a teacher and injure three other people at a school in northern France in what officials called an Islamist terrorist attack. |
| Since then, the mood in France has gone from worried to alarmed. The authorities raised the terrorist threat alert to its highest level, pouring even more police officers and soldiers onto the streets. Bomb scares emptied out major sites over the weekend, including the Louvre and, twice in less than a week, Versailles Palace. | Since then, the mood in France has gone from worried to alarmed. The authorities raised the terrorist threat alert to its highest level, pouring even more police officers and soldiers onto the streets. Bomb scares emptied out major sites over the weekend, including the Louvre and, twice in less than a week, Versailles Palace. |
| Officers in flak jackets with machine guns, their fingers resting on the triggers, stood sentinel on Saturday outside the school where a former student went on a stabbing spree the day before, killing Dominique Bernard, 57, a French literature teacher. | Officers in flak jackets with machine guns, their fingers resting on the triggers, stood sentinel on Saturday outside the school where a former student went on a stabbing spree the day before, killing Dominique Bernard, 57, a French literature teacher. |