France Deploys 7,000 Troops for Extra Security After Teacher Slain

France Deploys 7,000 Troops for Extra Security After Teacher Slain
French police secure the area after a teacher was killed and several people injured in a knife attack at the Lycee Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, northern France, on Oct. 13, 2023. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
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PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron on Oct. 14 deployed up to 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols, as bomb alerts forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum a day after a teacher was killed in an Islamic attack.

France was put on its highest security alert on Oct. 13 after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people at a school in the city of Arras in northern France.