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Last week at a grade school in France, a 12-year-old girl attempted to stab her teacher. Other schoolchildren say she told them she was planning a copycat stabbing in honor of a 20-year-old Chechen named Mohamed who’d shouted “Allahu Akbar!” while stabbing his former teacher to death at another school in France this October.
Witnesses say the unnamed fifth-grade student shouted “I’m going to kill you, ma’am!” — at least she was polite enough to call her “ma’am” — before pulling out a knife and lunging at the teacher, who fled the classroom before the girl was restrained and taken into custody. (more…)