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The 14-year-old pupil was arrested for attempted murder after stabbing a 60-year-old art teacher multiple times amid reported tensions, with no political or religious motive identified.
- On Feb 3, a secondary school student stabbed a 60-year-old art teacher at La Guicharde middle school, Sanary-sur-Mer, leaving her in critical condition.
- Toulon's public prosecutor Raphaël Balland said the suspect did not appear to have a religious or political motive and that there had been tensions recently with the teacher.
- Investigating sources report the pupil stabbed the 60-year-old art teacher at least three times, including two abdominal wounds and one or two arm wounds.
- The school was evacuated after the attack and Wednesday's lessons were cancelled, while Édouard Geffray, France's education minister, said he was `going to the scene immediately` and expressed `profound shock`.
- The attack continues a string of knife attacks on teachers across France, including the 2023 stabbing at Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras and the 2020 murder of Samuel Paty.
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The 14-year-old reproached her teacher "for having recorded several incidents concerning her on the Pronote app," according to the prosecutor of Toulon.
Art teacher critically injured by student in southern France school stabbing
A 14-year-old student in southern France stabbed an art teacher multiple times on Tuesday, leaving her in critical condition. Authorities said the attack appears linked to personal tensions, with no known political or religious motive, and the suspect has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
A high school teacher in southeastern France remained in critical condition on Tuesday after being stabbed by a 14-year-old student. The 60-year-old art teacher was stabbed three to four times in the chest in front of about 20 other students, according to a local official. The student fled the classroom before being caught in the schoolyard and later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Telegraph reports. Toulon public prosecutor Rapha…
Once again, there has been a violence in France at a school. During the class, a 14-year-old man stabbed his art teacher. There had been tensions between the attacker and the teacher before.
REPORT - This 60-year-old plastic arts teacher was attacked in his classroom by a 14-year-old student who may have premeditated his move, seriously injuring his teacher, whose life-saving prognosis was still on Tuesday night.
The aggression in a middle school on the Côte d'Azur confirms that the emergency violence between the benches goes beyond the Italian borders. Without an ideological motive: "He was angry with the teacher"
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