MARSEILLE police was forced to intervene after reports emerged of a person wielding a knife trying to enter an area Jewish school on Friday.

Footage has been shared online of a person being held to the bottom by a minimum of three officers before being escorted away. Local media reports staff at the Jewish school in Marseille's 13th arrondissement intervened after being alerted of the attempted intrusion. The alleged knifeman was reported to possess managed to temporarily escape to a close-by supermarket but was later caught and became the municipal police.

In one among the videos of the accident shared online an individual, believed to be a student, are often heard saying: "My God, my God."

The man is reported to possess received the varsity during a private car and have tried to enter the Yavne Jewish school.

After the failed plan to enter the varsity, the person is believed to possess turned his specialise in a close-by kosher grocery story but was overpowered because the security officers followed and stopped him.

The accident immediately sparked involves a strengthening of surveillance near Jewish worship and academic institutions.

No injuries were reported because the students remained within the classrooms because the municipal police intervened.

Police Chief Gerard Girel immediately ordered a rise in patrol passages near sites linked to the Jewish community, and officers were placed outside the varsity as extra security.


Zvi Ammar, the president of the Israelite Consistory of Marseille told France3: "I await impatiently to understand the motivations of the attacker."

Mr Ammar joined the safety agents who intervened once the person was subdued and was informed that he was armed with a "20 cm ceramic knife", and consistent with them, "he was pointing it to attack, he was determined".

Commenting on news of additional security being deployed, Mr Ammar added: ""These are measures that reassure the community and particularly the oldsters of scholars who were very afraid."

Yavne Jewish School offers classes to children from primary to highschool .

Haim, whose four children attend the institution, said: "I was at the opposite end of Marseille when my brother told me that  they had closed the gate due to a knife attack.

"I was afraid for my four children.

"We have a touch of a sense of insecurity, my children attend school alone because we live nearby, but now I won't allow them to go alone."

The alleged break in comes as a recent poll by the Ifop institute for the inspiration for Political Innovation and therefore the American Jewish Committee found 34 percent of respondents felt threatened in 2020.