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Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne accuses Marine Le Pen and her far-righ party National Rally of "fuelling polemics" after Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, which has put the executive under pressure in the face of the jihadist threat. SOUNDBITE
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
Members of the French football team observe a minute's silence as they pay tribute to the 130 people killed by jihadist gunmen in the November 2015 Paris attacks. IMAGES
In a press briefing during a visit to a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt for the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin declared that "we are at war against Islamic terrorism" and considered that "perhaps we have collectively put it a little behind us", two days after the cleaver attack in Paris. SOUNDBITE