Student dies after stabbing at French school, three injured people

In a stabbing at a school in the West French city of Nantes, a student died on Thursday and three other students were injured. One of them is in a critical condition in the hospital. French media reported that.

The incident took place around noon. According to French media, the perpetrator is a fifteen -year -old student of the school. He is said to have entered two classes armed with several knives to attack fellow students, after which he was overpowered by school staff. He was then arrested by the police.

The local police have not yet announced anything about the motive. According to a source of the French Dagblad Le Parisien would the boy suicide tendencies have had. In addition, he would be one just before his act manifesto of thirteen pages. In this manifesto he would, among other things, express his concerns about the « global ecocide » and « alienation » that causes the « current global system ». He would have called for ‘struggle’, not as ‘ideology whimping’, but as an ‘biological emergency’.

Stricter control in schools

François Bayrou, the Prime Minister of France, announced ‘stricter control’ around schools shortly after the attack. « This tragedy again illustrates the endemic violence among some young people, » said Bayrou. In recent years, there have been regular incidents with knives at French schools. In 2023, a teacher became a teacher in the northern French city of Arras stabbed.

The incidents force France to « ask themselves fundamental questions about education and the hierarchy of values ​​and respect for human life, » said Prime Minister Bayrou in a statement. He calls « a collective awareness. » Bayrou wants « a more intensive control around and in schools » and says « within four weeks » with concrete proposals to stop the violence by minors with stabbing weapons.

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