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France is mobilising 7,000 soldiers and increasing its alert status to "emergency attack" level after the death of a teacher in the northeast town of Arras, stabbed to death Friday by a former student with a record of Islamic radicalisation.

President Emmanuel Macron made the decision after convening an emergency meeting of his security cabinet on Friday night.

Macron has described the stabbing attack, which left two other staff members at the school seriously injured, as "Islamist terrorism."

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I more mean why are they activating the military units and what not the murder and what not is understandable if bad the weird part is 1 death spiralling into the military mobilisation that happened at least to me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because of the ongoing Israel-Palestine situation, it's probably much more likely that extremists might commit terrorist attacks, and we have had a history of attacks going by waves, so they're being careful in advance

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Let's avoid more terrorism by sending troops there to shoot them."

I hate to break it to yall, but America spent 20 years figuring out that doesn't work that well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't really work like that in France, especially in the military, this is more a display of force than anything else imho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So security theater. It accomplishes nothing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They do accomplish things. This attacks test and measure (implicitly) reaction time and let that nation know that the attacker is capable of reaching, and therefore attacking that point.

Scrambling/readiness state shows:

That enemy/unidentified hostiles will be intercepted, and destroyed if necessary.

Sends a message that the country's (or whosoever) defenses are on alert and will react swiftly to any perceived threat.

Sends a message that the intruding enemy is not wanted and will not be tolerated.

it also provides an unexpected drill for the militia. So bonus points I guess

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because there is a high risk of escalation while the conflict between Israel et Palestine is ongoing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Germany hasn't activated soldiers yet, but the police in all states is on high alert and direct protection of Jewish buildings was bumped up. If there was a murder, we would probably too activate more units for responses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Southern neighbours here, we've been doing a simlar thing for the last 15 years (same number of men too: 7000) and the result have been pretty great thus far. As expensive as this is going to be I think Macron made the right call.

Source: Article on "operation safe streets" [EN], Wikipedia page on "operazione strade sicure" [IT]