France is on its highest counter-terrorism security alert after a knife attack at a school.  

The BBC reports witnesses heard the attacker shout "allahu akbar" during the attack, and President Emmanuel Macron's condemned the "barbarity of Islamist terrorism". 

An additional 7000 soldiers were deployed into the streets, on top of the 10,000 that were already there. 

European Correspondent, Catherine Field, told Mike Hosking that there’s both a fear of attacks being connected to events in the Middle East, and a concern about alienated young people in France. 

She said that there are nearly 200 youths on a watchlist as they have extremist views that could possibly inspire an attack. 

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