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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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[–] Alami@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish he would recruit and deploy 7,000 teachers instead. There are 10 000 towns of more than 1000 inhabitants in France, it would be barely enough

[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Alami@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, obviously, they can, but do you know where one might find 10 000 available French teachers? It takes time. The urgency of a terrorist threat is different.

[–] CookieJarObserver@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. Anti terrorist action.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this comment -15? Who supports terrorists??

[–] CookieJarObserver@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guards are deployed because some Islamist (again) murdered a teacher and wounded several others...

And the terrorists supporters are down voting me because they can't handle the truth, that they are terrorist supporters. And supporting terrorism is bad.

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

No, we downvoted you because this is a common occurrence in france and it never did anything. You're as easily impressed as the french premier wants you to be. You think this did something and now the french premier doesn't have to do anything else

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems just a tad excessive...?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think that this is kinda a standard French security theater thing, as France has done it repeatedly before. Some terrorist kills some people in France, French government deploys a bunch of soldiers to visibly stand around in public places, public is satisfied that something is being done.

The real stuff that France is doing to deal with terrorism is going to be on the intelligence side. Can't really see that, though, so to the public, looks like the government is just standing around doing nothing, which I imagine is annoying to the government.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, allegedly the guy who just murdered a teacher was supposed to be under surveillance. But they have been putting way too many people to realistically monitor under that "level" of surveillance, including way less dangerous political opponents e.g the people on trial right now that you may have heard about, who are being tried for the heinous crimes of checks notes having Signal installed on their phone, possessing technical documentation and mocking Macron.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s so heartbreaking for the French to open their hearts and homes to migrants, only to be murdered for their hospitality. Let’s hope this show of force deters any other would-be terrorists. The only thing we can be grateful for is terrorists are cowards. They hurt the weak and innocent because they’re easy victims.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you oppress the people seeking help.

I'm obviously not justifying or excusing terrorism. But I condemn the politicians responsible for preventing this kind of situation. They instead do everything for this to happen.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one is oppressing anyone in France. There is no reason or excuse or justification for murdering an innocent French teacher.