French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday attended the funeral of Dominique Bernard, a 57-year old teacher who was stabbed to death at his school in a suspected Islamist attack six days ago in the northern city of Arras. Macron and his wife Brigitte, a former teacher, spoke with Bernard's family ahead of the ceremony at the Saint Vaast Cathedral in Arras, which was also attended by Bernard's colleagues and students each carrying a white rose.
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ARRAS - A high school in Arras, northern France, where a French teacher was fatally stabbed on Friday (Oct 13), was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb alert, according to a Reuters photographer who was at the location. Friday's attack, which prompted the government to put France on its highest security alert, came as a "jihadist atmosphere" had developed,.