France to deploy 7,000 soldiers after fatal stabbing of teacher (www.france24.com)

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France on Saturday said it will deploy 7,000 soldiers after declaring a top-level alert following the fatal stabbing of a teacher by a Chechen-origin man, who also severely wounded three others at a school.

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's incompetent politician bullshit. It absolutely doesn't matter if it's usefull or not. It's the old fascist move of parading soldiers so you look like you're doing something when you are in fact doing absolutely nothing useful.

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