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PARIS (AP) — A French middle school employee was stabbed to
death by a 15-year-old student during a bag check Tuesday at
their school east of Paris, the national gendarme service said.
The student was detained.
A police officer helping with the bag checks was slightly
injured during the arrest, the gendarme service said. The attack
at the Francoise Dolto School in Nogent was being investigated.
“While she was looking after our children in Nogent, an
educational assistant lost her life, a victim of senseless
violence,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a post on X.
“The nation is in mourning and the government mobilized to bring
crime down.”
Such fatal attacks have been rare in France but concerns about
school violence have been on the rise.
The Education Ministry introduced bag checks this year at some
schools to reduce it. Over a two-month period this spring, 186
knives were seized during school bag checks and 32 people
detained, the interior minister’s office said Tuesday.
In April, a high school student stabbed four other students at
his school in western France, killing one and wounding three
others before being arrested, police said.
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