14-YEAR-OLD STUDENT STABS TEACHER IN SOUTHERN FRANCE
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A 14-year-old school student has stabbed an art teacher at a secondary school in southern France, leaving the 60-year-old woman in critical condition, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
The incident occurred at La Guicharde secondary school in Sanary-sur-Mer, near the southern city of Toulon. According to the public prosecutor, Raphael Balland, the student stabbed the teacher at least three times and was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Balland said there were no indications of religious or political motives behind the attack at this stage. “All we know is that there had been tensions with this teacher recently, and that he was angry with her,” he said during a press briefing.
France’s Education Minister, Edouard Geffray, travelled to the school following the incident, expressing solidarity with the victim and the wider school community. “My thoughts immediately go out to the victim, her family and the entire educational community, whose deep shock I share,” he wrote on X.
Presidential aides said President Emmanuel Macron was being kept informed of the teacher’s condition.
The stabbing adds to a series of violent incidents in French schools in recent years. In June last year, a 14-year-old student was charged with the murder of a 31-year-old teaching assistant in Nogent after allegedly stabbing her during a bag search. In April, another student killed a girl and injured several others in a stabbing attack in the western city of Nantes.
The incidents continue to revive painful memories within France’s education sector, including the 2020 killing of history teacher Samuel Paty, who was murdered by a radicalised attacker after showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed during a class.
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