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       A teacher was killed and two people seriously injured in a stabbing at a French high school on Friday morning — an incident that is being investigated as a potential terrorist attack.

       French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the stabbing happened in Arras, a city in northern France. After the attack, President Emmanuel Macron visited the school, and France’s anti-terrorism prosecution office said it was opening an investigation.

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       Witnesses said the attacker shouted “Allahu akbar,” or “God is greatest” in Arabic, during the attack. The suspect was arrested at the scene.

       Radio station Europe 1 said the alleged attacker was a man of Chechen origin and was known to the security services for his involvement with radical Islam.

       French media reports said that the alleged attacker was a former student at the school.

       The attack came almost three years after a high school teacher was decapitated in a Paris suburb by a Chechen refugee, sparking a debate about the influence of radical Islam.

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