A 14-year-old pupil stabbed an educator throughout a routine bag search in a Haute-Marne center college, police have stated
A French center college pupil launched a lethal knife assault on a educating assistant throughout a routine bag examine on Tuesday, Haute-Marne police have stated.
The trainer was rushed to hospital however died later from her wounds. An officer concerned in apprehending the 14-year outdated attacker was additionally injured within the incident, native every day Journal de Haute-Marne (JHM) wrote, citing a correspondent on the scene.
The assault comes amid a widespread concern with escalating knife crime within the nation. French police have been stepping up random bag searches in colleges to battle the growing variety of incidents.
“A pupil pulled out a knife and severely injured a educating assistant,” whereas officers had been carrying bag checks at Dolto Center Faculty in Nogent, native police stated in a press launch on Tuesday. “The attacker, neutralized by the law enforcement officials current on the scene, is at the moment in police custody on the Nogent gendarmerie.”
In a press release on X on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the assault as a part of “a mindless wave of violence.”
The sufferer is survived by a younger son, French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou wrote on X. “Our ideas exit to her little boy, his household, his family members, and your entire instructional group,” he wrote.
“The specter of bladed weapons amongst our youngsters has turn out to be essential,” Bayrou wrote. He pressured the significance of creating the issue “a public enemy.”
In April, after a teenage woman was killed and three college students wounded in a mass stabbing at a personal college in Nantes, Bayrou referred to as for “extra intensive checks round and inside colleges.”
The French Training Ministry reported that 958 random bag checks resulted in 94 knives being seized in colleges all through France between late March and late April.
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