"It's hard to teach when you're traumatized." A teacher in Versailles (Yvelines), Christophe admits to being "afraid" since Friday, October 13 and the death of Dominique Bernard, the French teacher stabbed in front of his high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), an attack whose alleged perpetrator is a 20-year-old Russian. This Monday, three years to the day after the murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), who was also stabbed to death by a radicalized 18-year-old man, the country's 853,000 teachers are returning to class in a heavy atmosphere.
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