The teacher was taken care of by the emergency services and her days are not in danger. The author of the assault was placed in police custody. “His gesture remains unexplained”, according to the public prosecutor of Caen, Amélie Cladière.
Le Monde with AFP
A 15 -year -old high school student from a high school in Caen (Calvados) carried, Tuesday, September 13, a stab at the throat of a professor, whose days are not in danger, according to the prosecution and the Minister of National Education. The author of the attack was placed in police custody.
“This morning around 11:15 am A student of the Lycée Malherbe, during an interclass, was stabbed to a teacher from the establishment, in charge of his class. The professor was reached in the throat but his days are not in danger. It is taken care of for the wound of the wound “, according to a press release from the Caen prosecution released at midday.
“This is a student so far without stories. The gesture remains unexplained. A psychiatric examination is scheduled” Wednesday, added at the end of the day the prosecutor of the Caen Republic, Amélie Cladière, in A second press release.
“excessively rare”
“Witnesses have not reported an altercation, nor any incident between this student and this teacher since the start of the year,” added the prosecution. According to Bertrand Buffetti, academic secretary of the National Syndicate of Second degree Teaching (SNES) Normandy, “he is a second school student in the school but who did not have this teacher” as a teacher.
Such aggression, “it is something excessively rare in general but, in the Caen agglomeration and all the more reason at the Lycée Malherbe, it is something that leaves us a little bit stupid “Added Mr. Buffetti. The Malherbe high school is a famous establishment, close to the center of Caen, which has 2,100 students, included preparatory classes. “We do not know if” the assault took place “in the corridor or leaving the class,” commented Jérôme Adell, departmental secretary of the Calvados FSU.
“Solidarity and support”
Following this “serious incident”, the lessons will be suspended tomorrow morning, Wednesday, from 8 am to 9:30 am, according to The Lycée site . On the move to Sables-d’Olonne, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, said that he was going to go to the Malherbe high school “as soon as possible in the coming days”.
“I learned with great emotion the attack,” said Ndiaye. “I want of course to express my sympathy, all my empathy. And beyond this person, to also express my empathy with regard to the entire educational community of the Malherbe high school: students, teachers , the administrative and management team, “added the Minister of Education, who” reaffirms his solidarity and support for all teachers and recalls that no threat or aggression, physical or verbal, against them can be tolerated “.