Teacher stabbed to death: “calm”, “big knife”, … the chilling story of the students who witnessed the scene

It is a terrible drama which shook the Saint Thomas Aquinas high school of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. On Wednesday, February 22, shortly before 10 a.m., a 16-year-old second-year student stabbed his Spanish teacher in the middle of class. Despite the arrival of help, the 52-year-old woman did not did not survive his attack. Quickly arrested and placed in police custody, the student responsible declared to be “possesses” and hearing voices. A murder investigation was then opened.

Very shocked, the students present in the classroom managed to flee. They then returned to the sequence of events. “Everything was going normally until a student got up and stabbed the Spanish teacher with a large knife in her chest.” thus indicated a young girl in second class, whose testimony was relayed in C à vous.

The student describes as “very calm” at the time of his passage to the act

According to accounts from classmates of the alleged abuser, he allegedly hid his knife with a 10 cm long blade in paper and allegedly closed the door of the room before stabbing the teacher at the level of the sternum. During his passage to the act, “he was very calm‘ as one student reported.

For her part, another young girl explained that she had immediately left the establishment after the fact. “We fled, I went through the lower gate. I can’t really figure out what’s going on. I never thought I would experience this, it’s not something that happens and I can’t really realize” she indicated. A traumatic event for all high school students. After the tragedy, the Minister of Education announced a minute of silence in all establishments.