3rd grade studentE from the Edouard-Herriot college, located in Chenôve, on the outskirts of Dijon (Côte-d’Or), was arrested on the afternoon of Friday, March 15, after threatening his director with a knife, Agence France-Presse (AFP) with the rectory has learned. The main one is not injured.
The teenager requested a meeting with the headmaster of the college after being expelled from the institution for disciplinary problems. It was during this tête-à-tête that he drew his knife. The head of the facility managed to escape from his office while triggering the facility’s alarm, Dijon Academy Rector Pierre N’Gahane said.
After threats were made to the principal, the student attempted to return to his classroom, but it, like all traffic, was restricted, as is the procedure after an alarm of this type is triggered. When the classroom door was closed, the teenager remained in the corridor before he was eventually arrested by police who quickly arrived on the scene. “The police already intervened in the neighborhood and disarmed him very quickly”, the rector declared. The 330-student facility, located in a city policy priority district, was evacuated.
Already expelled from another school
The youth, whose age has not been specified, was taken into police custody as part of the investigation “death threats, violence on school premises, and trespassing with a weapon on school premises”, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch told AFP. According to him, the terrorist qualification is not preserved at this stage. However, the student passed “letter” on the main one, at a threatening meeting in which the 2015 attacks in the Paris region were mentioned, the rector added.
“At this time he has not provided any explanation of his motivations”the prosecutor announced in a press release Friday evening, stating that the student, “described as difficult”has not yet submitted “criminal record for malicious damage only”. He was expelled from another institution before being admitted to Herriot College.
Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet, “condemned with the utmost severity” these threats “I salute courage and poise” the main one. “I personally assured her of my support and my administration”she added to AFP. “If the matter is in the hands of justice, I have asked that this heinous act be brought to light. Despite all the threats that will be made against the staff, I ask that the strictest sanctions be taken so that the school remains an inviolable sanctuary.declared the minister.
A new test for the teaching community
President of the Côte-d’Or Departmental Council François Sauvadet (UDI), “He testified to everything (her) solidarity with the school principal, the victim of this knife threat”he thanked the police for the intervention “extremely fast”. “The intrusion alarm worked well after it was triggered, which shows that the department’s efforts over the years to secure our colleges sometimes allows the worst to be avoided.”you congratulated yourself.
“This is a new test for the teaching community”he underlined in a press release shortly after he went there. “It is urgent to provide answers to the increase in violence and attacks against our educational institutions that is taking place within the college today”.
At the beginning of March, the senatorial report of the investigative commission pointed out “terrible loneliness” teachers in the face of threats and attacks to which they are exposed and call on the state to initiate a “proactive attitude” help them.
On October 13, 2023, Dominique Bernard, a French teacher, was murdered in Arras by a radicalized former student, almost three years after the assassination of Samuel Paty, a stabbed teacher, and on October 16, 2020, a beheaded teacher outside his college. Conflans- Sainte-Honorine, in Yvelines.