Officials say that a teaching assistant has died after stabbing a student outside a school in Nogant, North-East France.
Haute-Marne Province said the 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed outside the François Dolto Middle School on Tuesday morning as the students’ bags were being investigated by the police.
The French media reported that a suspect was taken into custody, Prime Minister François Bairo said the student was 14 years old.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the teaching assistant was “a victim of a insensitive wave of violence” and announced that “the nation is in mourning”.
At the parties, politicians condemned the attack and called for more action against the knife crime.
Local media said that the suspect was not known to the police in the past and the objective for the attack remains without thinking.
Bairu and French Education Minister Elizabeth Born said that the teaching assistant was stabbed by a student.
Borne said she would visit Nogant to go to school, “I appreciate the creation and dedication of those who had to stop the attacker”.
Baireu wrote on social media that “our views go out” for the victim’s “Little Boy”, family, loved ones and the entire educational community.
“The threat of weapons bladed among our children has become important”, Bairo said, “It is up to us that we make this widely a public enemy”.
Opposition politicians pushed back the government to take more action.
The leader of the distant national rally (RN) Marine Le Penn showed that “what he called the insignificant of ultraviolens to end it to end it to encourage the apathy of public authorities”.
It is written on social media, “A week does not go to a school without a tragedy.”
RN President Jordan Bardela criticized Macron, which Bardela said that “Sevari” was “refusal”, which was seizing on the comments made in the weekend.
Speaking before the United Nations Conference on the oceans on Saturday, Macron said that he had “either the government or the Parliament to give the suit of this moment”, criticizing those “who forget the fight for the climate” and “like, in the meantime, the country and the latest news to put up people’s minds”.
There have been other recent knife attacks in schools. Last October, A The teacher was killed during an attack in a school In the northern city of Aragas.
The following a Stabbing a high school in Nentas in AprilBayoro called for “within schools and within schools and an intensity of control”.
In late April, the Ministry of National Education reported that 958 blade weapons were seized from March to 958 random bag check schools.
Jean-Remy Girard, president of the National Union of Secondary Schools, said: “It is impossible to be more vigilant 24 hours a day. We cannot say that every student is a danger or danger, otherwise we never get out of bed in the morning.”
