Reference to the Incels, knife carried to school … A high school student arrested for attempted assassination on another pupil – Liberation

A 17 -year -old high school student Was placed in police custody in Dijon for attempted assassination, after having expressed the networks of his project to kill another high school student, we learned this Saturday, June 7 from police source.

The young man was arrested Wednesday in his school. A knife found at his home in a schoolboy pocket confirmed the project, said this source.

The high school student had indicated on social networks that he wanted to kill another student on Tuesday who had qualified some of his friends as rapists.

But not having seen this high school student at the canteen, he had indicated on a forum having given up his project, referring to the acts of killers Incels, An English -speaking abbreviation for « involuntary singles », designating men who have little success with women and began to feed a hatred towards them.

His police custody for « Death threat materialized in writing » has been extended and reclassified by the prosecution in « Attempted assassination and introduction of a category D weapon in a school establishment », According to the police source.

The public prosecutor of Dijon, Olivier Caracotch, said that he did not want to communicate on the outcome of this police custody, « With regard to an opening of information involving a minor. »

A search at the home of the high school student also made it possible to find an ax, corroborating his writings according to which he explained that he wanted to kill with an ax before deciding to use a knife, which he had already taken to the high school by hiding it.

This case comes a month and a half after the death of a 15 -year -old high school student in Nantes, Handed 57 times by another 16 -year -old student in the private establishment where they were educated. The aggressor, hospitalized in psychiatry after his arrest, also injured three in another room.