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French Interior Minister announces arrest of man with knife outside Paris elementary school

French police arrest man armed with knife making threats outside Paris elementary school, Report says, citing TASS.

"I salute the composure and dynamism of the police, who intervened very quickly to arrest a dangerous individual, armed with a cutter, in front of an elementary school in Seine-Saint-Denis," French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, adding that the "individual was making threats.

The man was reportedly threatening parents as they dropped their children off at the school in Rosny-sous-Bois.

French media described the man as "very incoherent" and has been taken in for questioning though there has been no comment from French anti-terrorism prosecutors thus far.

Friday's incident comes amid a slew of attacks across France and several arrests of armed individuals suspected of planning to carry out copycat attacks of the Nice attack in which three people were killed.

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