A 17-year-old pupil has been arrested after a shooting at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse, in which several people were wounded. The French government had initiated an attack alert via smartphone in the wake of the shooting at Thursday lunchtime. One girl who saw the shooter enter the school told France Info radio he had looked her straight in the eye with “a fury”. Another student, Benjamin, told Nice Matin: “I was sitting down finishing my lunch. The Grasse shooting comes less than six weeks before the two-round presidential election on 23 April and 7 May.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 12:28 UTC