At Edouard primary school, a teacher was stubbed to death by a parent. The incident took place in at the Edouard Herriot primary school in Albi, southern France, on Friday morning.Police said the suspect was immediately detained. It is not yet known if her child was in class at the time.
President Francois Hollande sent France’s education minister to the school to lead the government response. “All state services will be mobilised to take care of these children and the staff who witnessed this awful tragedy,” Mr Hollande said in a statement.
Education minister Benoit Hamon said the assailant “appears to have a serious psychiatric disorder, according to the initial findings of the investigation”. Neither she nor the victim has been named yet.
The attack – on the last school day before the summer break – has left two young children without their mother. Albi prosecutor Claude Derens was one of the first at the scene. “When I arrived at the scene they were trying to revive her”, he said. “She was in cardiac arrest in her classroom.”
Local media reported that the suspect was already known to police over allegations of child neglect. She is alleged to have shouted “I am not a thief” before the stabbing, media reports said. The pupils who witnessed the attack, reported to be between five and six years old, are receiving counselling.
A spokesman for the education minister said that he was “deeply shocked by this crime, which plunges the end of the school year into mourning”.
“This tragedy confirms there is a need to fight against violence in and around schools, to protect schools, teachers and students,” the spokesman said. Correspondents say the incident comes at a time of growing concern in France over assaults by parents on teachers.
More than one in 10 teaching staff in France’s public education system has reported suffering abuse or threats at work – nearly twice as many as in all other professions, according to a recent study by the French national statistics institute
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