Overview
- A pupil was detained after firing a long hunting rifle hidden in a guitar case inside Joseph-Lakanal middle school, wounding the 53-year-old headmaster and a 37-year-old teacher and grazing a third person.
- School staff subdued and disarmed the 14-year-old before police arrived, and authorities say the two injured staff members received treatment for injuries that were not life-threatening.
- Prosecutors in Marseille opened an attempted-murder probe and national counterterrorism prosecutors later took the case, citing repeated shots, premeditation and weapons offences.
- Investigators say the suspect admitted planning the attack for months, told them he sought revenge for alleged bullying, and had digital material linked to an online ‘True Crime’ community that glorifies school violence.
- Officials report no confirmed link to the recent high-school protest movement, and local authorities have offered counselling to pupils while the case could prompt tighter school checks and a tougher legal response to attacks on staff.