A college student seriously hurts a supervisor with a knife in Haute-Marne-Liberation

A student was stopped Tuesday morning after having « Seriously injured an education assistant » With a knife during a gendarmerie check in front of a college in Haute-Marne, said the prefecture, adding that the 31-year-old victim is in « Absolute emergency ». According to The Haute-Marne Journal,, The attack occurred in front of the Françoise-Dolto college in Nogent, near Chaumont, shortly before 8:30 am. The local newspaper also reports that a gendarme was injured.

The college student was placed in police custody at the Nogent gendarmerie and the 324 students of the establishment were confined, said the prefecture.

The Minister of National Education, Elisabeth Bornementioned a « Terrible drama » and greeted « The cold blood and the commitment of those who acted to master the aggressor ». She announced that she goes on the spot.

This case comes a month and a half after The death of a high school student 15 years old in Nantes, stabbed 57 times per Another student 16 years old in the private establishment where they were educated. The attacker, hospitalized in psychiatry after his arrest, also injured three in another room.

Update at 10:18 am with more context elements; and at 10:33 a.m. with the reaction of Elisabeth Borne.