A man armed with a cutter arrested near a school in Seine-Saint-Denis

A man armed with a cutter was arrested near a school -

His motivations remain unclear.

This Friday morning, around 8:40 a.m., a man armed with a cutter and making "threatening" and "incoherent" remarks was arrested near an elementary school in Rosny-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint- Denis.

He was mounted on a monument to the dead located right next to the school, and "addressed the crowd indiscriminately on the monument to the dead", said the Bobigny prosecutor's office.

There were no injuries and "no remarks of a terrorist nature were made", he said.

The man was taken into custody for "death threats with a weapon" and the investigation was entrusted to the police station of Rosny-sous-Bois, according to this source.

"I salute the efficiency of the police and our video surveillance system which allowed his rapid arrest," Mayor LR Jean-Paul Fauconnet said on Facebook.

I salute the composure and the dynamism of the police who intervened very quickly to arrest a dangerous individual, armed with a cutter, in front of an elementary school in Seine-Saint-Denis.

This individual was making threatening words.

Cc: @ Prefet93

- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) November 6, 2020

Reinforced supervision of schools

On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, also praised "the coolness and the dynamism of the police who intervened very quickly to arrest a dangerous individual".

Schools have been the subject of increased surveillance since the assassination of Samuel Paty on October 16, near his college in Conflans-Saint-Honorine (Yvelines) and the resurgence of the terrorist threat in France.

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