France is looking for responses to school violence after stabbing multiple in an institution in Nantes
Him stabs committed this Thursday for a child under 15 years In a school superior to Nantes, With a dead man and three injuredHe left France Looking for urgent responses to the increase in school violence with white weapons.
The event occurred around 12.30, when the attacker Four students stabbed in two classes on two different floors before being reduced and disarmed by several teachers, who delivered it to Policewhich proceeds to its arrest.
A student diedAnother was very serious and two less serious. The managers of the center, a private high school, gave the alert and the students (between 15 and 18 years old) were brought to the multipurpose room, since they were evacuated.
“Everyone has panic”A student declared after leaving the center, while another student explained that he understood that something serious happened to see other classmates cry. The center was surrounded by the police and emergency services and the authorities sent a psychological assistance team to support the students and staff of the Center.
He asked for Prime Minister François Bayrou “An intensification of controls” In educational centers and suggested the possibility of installing metals detectors at the entrance of the centers. Bayrou proposed that within four weeks several ministries presented “concrete proposals in prevention, regulations and repression” to stop the phenomenon of violence committed by minors with white weapons.
Reconstruct society
The Minister of the Interior, the conservative Bruno Retilleau, who aspires to reach the presidency of the LR Conservative party and be his presidential candidate in the 2027 elections, was very difficult to say that “Authority must be reconstructed. Let’s go to an attacked company. “Retailleau held” a company that favored laxism, which has weakened the authority “, in declarations together with the head of education, Elisabeth Borne.
Both ministers have traveled to this city in Western France to meet those responsible for that school and security forces and emergency services. Despite the rapid arrival of ambulances, the Minister of Education warned that “there are no guarantees” A student will be saved who has undergone very serious injuries.
Today’s accident follows other similar ones inside or in the surroundings of the educational centers in recent years, although they have accelerated in recent months, sometimes linked to mental health problems and others of small common crime or rivalry between groups of young people, which They cost the life of teachers and students.
The mayor of Nantes, the socialist Johanna Rolland, in an apparent response to the government, said before the press “The background of the mental health of our young people” and asked not to do politics: “politics is not for tonight”.
Macron pays homage to the teachers of the center
The president Emmanuel Macron He said that the whole country “shares the shock and pain” for the victims and has congratulated, like the two ministers, the teachers who intervened to disarm and keep the author, with what “They avoided other dramas”. “Its value deserves respect,” Macron said in a message on Madagascar’s social networks, where he participated in a summit of the Indian Ocean States.
On the cause of the attack, the two ministers avoided entering the speculations and referring to the police investigations, coordinated by the Prosecutor. The prosecutor of Nantes Antoine Leroy, had planned to offer a press conference in the late afternoon, but later He canceled it and will make it tomorrowindicated the interior minister. Retailleau also said that the office of the National Anti -Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office studies the case before deciding whether to take care of the investigation.
The author of the attack on Nantes It was not radicalized Nor did he have a police record, but he was someone from a reserved nature and with a rather depressive profile, according to sources of investigation. The teenager had sent an EE -mail this morning to all students in the center with a thirteen pages document entitled “Immune Action” and in which he divided society and the destructive effects of globalization on the human being.
Several people started gathering in front of the center where the stab, Notre Dame de Toutes, to deposit flowers in homage to the victims. “When it occurs in the United States it is quite shocking and leaves a mark on the mind. Now it happens in France and is surprising and frightening“He told Efe Antoine Favennec after leaving some flowers with two children.
