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French Police Shoot Dead A Man With Machete Near School
French police on Thursday shot and killed a man wielding a machete near a school in the southeastern town of La Seyne-sur-Mer, prosecutors said.
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French Schools Receive Threatening Messages, Beheading Videos, Probe On
At least 30 schools in the Paris region have this week received threatening messages accompanied by "shocking" footage of beheadings, the education ministry said on Thursday.
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12-Year-Old Girl Threatens Teacher With Knife During Class At French School
A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife at a school in northern France on Wednesday, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.
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"Shameful": French Government On Letter Sent To School Boy Who Killed Self
A threatening letter sent by local education authorities to the parents of a boy who died by suicide after complaining of being bullied has embarrassed France's government, which described the communication as "shameful".
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"Fatwa Launched" Against Beheaded Teacher: French Minister
The father of a schoolgirl and a known Islamist terrorist had urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's interior minister said Monday.
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French Teen School Shooter Tackled By 'Hero' Teacher
A disturbed teenager with guns and grenades opened fire in a school in southern France on Thursday, slightly wounding four people, officials said, rattling nerves in a country scarred by terror attacks.
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French School Shooting: 8 Injured Including Head Teacher
Eight people were injured after a student opened fire at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said on Thursday.
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Police deploy in French schools after mass killing threat
Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school.
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French 'Big Bang' scientist on trial for alleged terror plot
A Franco-Algerian nuclear scientist goes on trial on Thursday for allegedly plotting terror attacks in France, where an Islamist's killing spree has already overshadowed the presidential campaign.
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French police question gunman's 'proud' brother
The brother of the French gunman who killed seven people including children in a shooting spree denied involvement in the attacks but said he was proud of his sibling's actions, according to police.
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French teacher suspended for 'minute's silence for killer'
A French teacher was suspended on Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute's silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot dead by police.
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Girlfriend to marry murdered French soldier posthumously
The pregnant girlfriend of one of the French paratroopers murdered by Mohamed Merah is to be allowed to marry him posthumously, the family's lawyer Gilbert Gollard said on Friday.
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Jail those who browse terror websites: Sarkozy
France's President proposed a sweeping new law that would jail those who visit extremist web sites -- one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree.
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French gunman who shot dead 3 Jewish children killed in siege
An al Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in France is dead after police stormed his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse, French media reported on Thursday.
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French police press besieged gunman to surrender
Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early on Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an Al Qaida linked terror spree that killed seven people.
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French Police Shoot Dead A Man With Machete Near School
French police on Thursday shot and killed a man wielding a machete near a school in the southeastern town of La Seyne-sur-Mer, prosecutors said.
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French Schools Receive Threatening Messages, Beheading Videos, Probe On
At least 30 schools in the Paris region have this week received threatening messages accompanied by "shocking" footage of beheadings, the education ministry said on Thursday.
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12-Year-Old Girl Threatens Teacher With Knife During Class At French School
A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife at a school in northern France on Wednesday, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.
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"Shameful": French Government On Letter Sent To School Boy Who Killed Self
A threatening letter sent by local education authorities to the parents of a boy who died by suicide after complaining of being bullied has embarrassed France's government, which described the communication as "shameful".
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"Fatwa Launched" Against Beheaded Teacher: French Minister
The father of a schoolgirl and a known Islamist terrorist had urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's interior minister said Monday.
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French Teen School Shooter Tackled By 'Hero' Teacher
A disturbed teenager with guns and grenades opened fire in a school in southern France on Thursday, slightly wounding four people, officials said, rattling nerves in a country scarred by terror attacks.
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French School Shooting: 8 Injured Including Head Teacher
Eight people were injured after a student opened fire at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said on Thursday.
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Police deploy in French schools after mass killing threat
Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school.
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French 'Big Bang' scientist on trial for alleged terror plot
A Franco-Algerian nuclear scientist goes on trial on Thursday for allegedly plotting terror attacks in France, where an Islamist's killing spree has already overshadowed the presidential campaign.
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French police question gunman's 'proud' brother
The brother of the French gunman who killed seven people including children in a shooting spree denied involvement in the attacks but said he was proud of his sibling's actions, according to police.
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French teacher suspended for 'minute's silence for killer'
A French teacher was suspended on Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute's silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot dead by police.
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Girlfriend to marry murdered French soldier posthumously
The pregnant girlfriend of one of the French paratroopers murdered by Mohamed Merah is to be allowed to marry him posthumously, the family's lawyer Gilbert Gollard said on Friday.
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Jail those who browse terror websites: Sarkozy
France's President proposed a sweeping new law that would jail those who visit extremist web sites -- one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree.
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French gunman who shot dead 3 Jewish children killed in siege
An al Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in France is dead after police stormed his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse, French media reported on Thursday.
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French police press besieged gunman to surrender
Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early on Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an Al Qaida linked terror spree that killed seven people.
