A 15-year-old student has stabbed a teaching assistant to death during a routine bag check at a faculty in Paris.
What has been described as a ‘senseless’ attack happened minutes before classes began on the Francoise Dolto School within the suburb of Nogent.
The 31-year-old school assistant, who has not yet been named by French police, suffered multiple stab wounds to her body.
She was later pronounced dead and the pupil was captured on the scene.
A police officer helping with the bag checks was barely injured throughout the arrest, the gendarme service said.
French president Emmanuel Macron said in a post on X: ‘While she was taking care of our kids in Nogent, an academic assistant lost her life, a victim of senseless violence.
‘The nation is in mourning and the federal government mobilised to bring crime down.’
Such fatal attacks have been rare in France but concerns about school violence have been on the rise.
The Education Ministry introduced bag checks this yr at some schools to cut back it.
Over a two-month period this spring, 186 knives were seized during school bag checks and 32 people detained, the inside minister’s office said Tuesday.
In April, a highschool student stabbed 4 other students at his school in western France, killing one and wounding three others before being arrested, police said.
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