Horror as student, 14, stabs female teaching assistant, 31, to death during bag search at French school
A teaching assistant died after being stabbed by a 14-year-old pupil in France this morning, according to a source close to the case.
The 31-year-old teaching assistant was attacked and seriously wounded with a knife during a bag search outside of the Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent.
The offending pupil was arrested and taken into custody after the attack, the local prefecture reported.
Education Minister Elisabeth Borne, who introduced bag searches in French schools in February, said she would go to Nogent 'to support the entire school community and the police'.
Bag checks have become policy in France this year in the wake of a spate of attacks on teachers and pupils by other schoolchildren.
At the end of April, the education ministry reported that some 958 bag checks in schools had resulted in the seizure of 94 knives - nearly one in every ten bag searched.
Emmanuel Macron shared his shock at the attack on social media, writing that 'while watching over our children in Nogent, a teaching assistant lost her life'.
The French President denounced what he called a 'senseless wave of violence', adding: 'We all stand with her family, her loved ones, her colleagues and the entire educational community.'
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