At a secondary school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, a student stabbed a teacher to death, French media report. The knife attack this morning was in the classroom where she taught.
A 16-year-old student was arrested. According to local media, the victim is a woman in her fifties, she would have died before emergency services could do anything for her. She taught Spanish at the Catholic private school, news channel BFMTV reports.
Education Minister Ndiaye is on his way to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, which is located in the extreme southwest of France. He expresses his condolences to the victim’s family, her colleagues and students.
Psychiatric disorder
In October 2020, a shock wave swept through France when a social studies teacher was beheaded on the street in a suburb of Paris. The perpetrator was an 18-year-old Chechen, a Muslim extremist who targeted teacher Samuel Paty for using caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a lesson on freedom of expression in class.
The background to the knife attack in Saint-Jean-de-Luz is still unclear. BFMTV reports that the student would suffer from a psychiatric disorder.
