French police arrested a heavily armed 17-year-old on Thursday after he opened fire at a school in southern France, rattling nerves in a country on edge after several jehadi attacks, authorities said. The teen was carrying a rifle, two handguns and two grenades in the attack at the Alexis de Tocqueville high school in the sleepy hillside city of Grasse, police told AFP.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said eight people, including the principal, were injured. Some were hurt in a stampede triggered by the attack. The suspect, who has not been named publicly, had shared pictures and videos on social media of infamous US school shootings, including the 1999 Columbine massacre. The head of the regional Government, Christian Estrosi said the shooting was “not at all” being seen as a terror attack.