15 -year -old student attacked 4 colleagues at a lunch break in a private school in Nantes and killed 10th grade colleague. Target may have been the girlfriend.
A 10th grade student tragically died on Thursday in an attack on the knife in NantesFrance.
The attack took place in the private school group Notre-Dame-de-Rates-Aides, in the Doulon neighborhood, early afternoon, and was carried out by a 15-year-old student from the same school, which was immediately arrested, the French newspaper advances.
The young seriously injured three other peoplehaving a young man was hit in the carotid.
Target would be the girlfriend
The aggression will have occurred during the lunch break. The suspect, identified as Justin P., will have entered a classroom before violently attacking his colleagues. According to the first information of the investigation, It would target a student with whom she had a love relationship.
During the escape, he injured other people before being caught by the school staff. The suspect reports the newspaper, will then have asked the police to shoot it.
“I was in a class in an isolated building and we heard an alarm at 12:30 pm, but nothing more. When we left at 1 pm, we saw some 10th graders crying and then some friends told me what had happened,” says one student, quoted by.
The students were urgently evacuated, except for the direct witnesses of the aggression, who were heard by the investigators, with about 50 firefighters and 20 emergency vehicles.
Nantes prosecutor Antoine Leroy went to the scene, accompanied by Bassem Assih, the first assistant responsible for security. A press conference was announced.
France in “Shock”
“It’s absolutely shocking. We are in a secondary school usually very quietthere have never been such problems, not even lower problems, ”says one student from the same school to.
A mother, whose daughter is from the class affected by the attack, confesses the same astonishment: “I, who I’m an anxious mother and do not let her go alone, did not think something could happen to her in high school.”
Marine Le Pen It manifested “shock” and “revolt” before the tragedy.
“My thoughts are with the families of the victims and the teaching community. It is more than time to take the necessary measures to eradicate this trivialization of ultraviolence, which is causing damage in the hearts of our schools” at X.
Jordan BardellaPresident of the National Union, expresses their “condolences to the deceased victim, the victims seriously injured, as well as their family members, the students and teachers of the institution in a state of shock”, in X.
The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivetsends “a moving thought to your family members, the wounded and the educational teams; I share your pain and I am by your side.”
“The safety of school institutions must be absolute, is a sanctuary. Safety doors, video surveillance with facial recognition, nothing should be excluded,” says Deputy Eric Ciotti.
What is known about the suspect
The 15 -year -old will live with his mother in the suburbs of Nantes. Was described by colleagues as reserved, and one of them said that the aggressor shared comments with Nazi connotation.
“He shared strange, Nazi ideas,” a 9th grade student told Le Figaro. Shortly before the attack, the teenager will have sent a document between 13 and 20 pages by email to the entire school, the newspaper also advances, “in which it draws a very dark portrait of society,” says BFMTV who had access to the document.
Another student tells the station that the perpetrator “was a little strange since the beginning of the year.”
The young suspect has no criminal record. It is not yet known what motivated the attack.
