(Arab News) Panic buttons will be installed in French schools in a bid to alert police of terrorist attacks, the Times reported.
The move follows the murder of a teacher by an Islamist last month, and as tensions surge in the country over the Gaza conflict.
Several towns and cities across France already use panic buttons in schools, but Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has said the system should be introduced nationwide.
Teacher Dominique Bernard, 57, was stabbed to death last month outside his secondary school in Arras, northeastern France.
A former student at the school, 20-year-old Mohammed Mogouchkov, has been charged with Bernard’s murder.
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