Overview

• The boy’s death was pronounced late Sunday, days after the attack at Collège Robert Schuman in Benfeld near Strasbourg.
• He stabbed a 66-year-old music teacher in the face shortly after classes began on Wednesday and fled the school on a bicycle.
• He was intercepted by authorities and then stabbed himself in the neck during the arrest; he did not threaten the gendarmes, a senior officer said.
• Prosecutor Clarisse Taron said he was airlifted, operated on and sedated with a life‑threatening prognosis following the self-inflicted wounds.
• According to officials, the 3e pupil had no criminal record, was not flagged as violent, had a disability and a history of foster‑care abuse, and had recently faced a temporary exclusion with another disciplinary procedure planned.