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LeMonde
2 days ago
- LeMonde
French prosecutors seek murder charge for school stabbing suspect
French prosecutors on Thursday, June 12, requested that a 14-year-old school pupil detained for allegedl y stabbing to death a teaching assistant in eastern France be charged with murder and placed in pre-trial detention. The secondary school pupil was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly killing a 31-year-old school monitor with a knife during a bag search in the eastern town of Nogent, in an attack that caused widespread shock in France. On Thursday, prosecutors requested he be charged with "murder of a person carrying out a public service mission" and "intentional violence" against a police officer injured during the arrest. The prosecutor's office also requested that the pupil be placed in pre-trial detention, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said in a statement. As a minor, the suspect faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison instead of life imprisonment. The prosecutors made the announcement as classes resumed at the Françoise Dolto school struck by the tragedy. Regional prosecutors told reporters on Wednesday that the teenager acknowledged "being the perpetrator" of the deadly stabbing. He had wanted to attack "any" adult monitor after being reprimanded for kissing his girlfriend, they said. He did not appear to suffer from any "mental disorder" but appeared "detached" and expressed "no regret" for killing one of the school's monitors, all of whom were women, prosecutors said. A moment of silence was held at midday in schools across France in memory of the victim.
Al Arabiya
2 days ago
- Al Arabiya
French prosecutors seek murder charge for school stabbing suspect
French prosecutors on Thursday requested that a 14-year-old school pupil detained for allegedly stabbing to death a teaching assistant in eastern France be charged with murder and placed in pre-trial detention. The secondary school pupil was arrested Tuesday after allegedly killing the 31-year-old school monitor with a knife during a bag search in the eastern town of Nogent, in an attack that caused widespread shock in France. On Thursday, prosecutors requested he be charged with 'murder of a person carrying out a public service mission' and 'intentional violence' against a police officer injured during the arrest. The prosecutor's office also requested that the pupil be placed in pre-trial detention, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said in a statement. As a minor, the suspect faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison instead of life imprisonment. The prosecutors made the announcement as classes resumed at the Françoise Dolto school struck by the tragedy. Regional prosecutors told reporters on Wednesday that the teenager acknowledged 'being the perpetrator' of the deadly stabbing. He had wanted to attack 'any' adult monitor after being reprimanded for kissing his girlfriend, they said. He did not appear to suffer from any 'mental disorder' but appeared 'detached' and expressed 'no regret' for killing one of the school's monitors, all of whom were women, prosecutors said. A moment of silence will be held at midday in schools across France in memory of the victim.
Local France
4 days ago
- Local France
Teaching assistant killed in French school knife attack
The student was taken into custody after the attack in Nogent in the Haute-Marne département of eastern France, the local préfecture added. The 31-year-old teaching assistant was seriously injured, and died a short time later, emergency workers at the scene confirmed. Education Minister Elisabeth Borne said on X she would go to the Françoise Dolto collège in Nogent "to support the entire school community and the police". Advertisement France has in recent years seen a series of attacks on teachers and pupils by other schoolchildren. In March, French police started random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools. At the end of April, after a fatal attack at a school in Nantes, the education ministry reported that 958 random bag checks in schools had led to the seizure of 94 knives.
