The 15-year-old suspect is indicted for “attempted murder” for stabbing a 63-year-old teacher.
The fifteen-year-old high school student who had wounded a teacher in a Caen school with a knife in the throat was referred on September 28 and indicted, the Caen prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.
“He was incarcerated in a medical environment“, always according to the prosecutor Amélie Cladière, and “the question of the reasons for this acting out remains unresolved at this stage of the investigation“.
Judicial information had been opened for “attempted assassination” following this attack which took place on September 13 at the Lycée Malherbe, an establishment deemed calm, close to the city center. According to the academy, the 63-year-old victim was discharged from hospital.A few days” after the attack, but is “not ready to go back to work“. A high school student who witnessed the scene told AFP that the attacker had injured the teacher in the throat before running back down a hallway to come back to her, trying to hurt her again.
The teacher and student thendebateduntil sirens sounded and scared off the attacker, who was then quickly arrested, according to the teenager. After this attack, the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye went to this establishment on September 23 during a visit behind closed doors.
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