US EditionFrench teacher stabbed by pupil in southern France school
The attack followed recent tensions between the pupil and teacher; the suspect was arrested on attempted murder charges, and the school was evacuated, officials said.
- On Feb 3, a secondary school student stabbed a 60-year-old art teacher at La Guicharde middle school, Sanary-sur-Mer, leaving her in critical condition.
- Toulon's public prosecutor Raphaël Balland said the suspect did not appear to have a religious or political motive and that there had been tensions recently with the teacher.
- Investigating sources report the pupil stabbed the 60-year-old art teacher at least three times, including two abdominal wounds and one or two arm wounds.
- The school was evacuated after the attack and Wednesday's lessons were cancelled, while Édouard Geffray, France's education minister, said he was `going to the scene immediately` and expressed `profound shock`.
- The attack continues a string of knife attacks on teachers across France, including the 2023 stabbing at Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras and the 2020 murder of Samuel Paty.
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Once again, there has been a violence in France at a school. During the class, a 14-year-old man stabbed his art teacher. There had been tensions between the attacker and the teacher before.
In a middle school in Sanary-sur-Mer, southern France, a 14-year-old student critically injured his art teacher with multiple stab wounds. The teenager was arrested. The public prosecutor's office is investigating the incident as attempted murder.
A teacher at a high school in the south of France is struggling between life and death after one of her students, a 14-year-old boy, stabbed her several times.
A ninth-grade student at a primary school in the town of Sanary-sur-Mer in southern France stabbed a 60-year-old art teacher in her classroom. The woman, who suffered at least three stab wounds, is in critical condition. Police arrested the attacker at the scene, the website of the daily Le Parisien reports.
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