PARIS — A French center faculty worker was stabbed to demise by a 15-year-old pupil throughout a bag examine Tuesday at their faculty east of Paris, the nationwide gendarme service mentioned. The coed was detained.
A police officer serving to with the bag checks was barely injured in the course of the arrest, the gendarme service mentioned. The assault on the Francoise Dolto Faculty in Nogent was being investigated.
“Whereas she was taking care of our kids in Nogent, an academic assistant misplaced her life, a sufferer of mindless violence,” French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned in a publish on X. “The nation is in mourning and the federal government mobilized to convey crime down.”
Such deadly assaults have been uncommon in France however issues about faculty violence have been on the rise.
The Schooling Ministry launched bag checks this yr at some colleges to scale back it. Over a two-month interval this spring, 186 knives have been seized throughout faculty bag checks and 32 folks detained, the inside minister’s workplace mentioned Tuesday.
In April, a highschool pupil stabbed four other students at his faculty in western France, killing one and wounding three others earlier than being arrested, police mentioned.