From Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, where a Spanish teacher was stabbed to death by a student on Wednesday morning, Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of National Education called all schools to observe a minute of silence Thursday at 3 p.m.
A minute of silence will be observed Thursday at 3:00 p.m. “in all schools” in France in tribute to the teacher stabbed to death on Wednesday in her class in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), announced the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye. A symbolic gesture which had already been observed during the assassination of Samuel Paty in a high school in Conflans-sainte-Honorine in the Yvelines.
It’s a sad day for National Education. Pain and respect for the victim, committed and dedicated to his students. In his memory, a minute of silence will be observed tomorrow at 3 p.m. in colleges, high schools and SNU centers.
— Pap Ndiaye (@PapNdiaye) February 22, 2023
“It’s a sad day for National Education, it’s a sad day of course for this establishment”, also declared the minister during a press conference in front of the Saint-Thomas d’Aquin Catholic high school. where the 52-year-old Spanish teacher was killed. The alleged perpetrator, a 16-year-old student, was taken into custody.
The perpetrator of the attack makes “incoherent remarks”
The alleged perpetrator of the assault, a 16-year-old student, was “placed in police custody”. He “was not known to the police or the justice services,” added the magistrate who will hold another press conference on Thursday afternoon. “His condition allows custody” in the premises of the Bayonne judicial police, he said, while two sources close to the case spoke to AFP about a young man making “incoherent remarks” and to the “proven psychiatric disorders”.