Overview

• The 31-year-old teaching assistant died of multiple stab wounds sustained during a routine bag search outside Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent, Haute-Marne.
• Gendarmes and on-site officers overpowered and arrested the 15-year-old suspect, who had no prior criminal record.
• All 324 students were immediately locked down following the attack while a gendarme suffered a hand injury detaining the assailant.
• President Macron condemned the killing as part of a “senseless wave of violence” and Education Minister Borne traveled to Nogent to support the school community.
• Since March, authorities have carried out nearly 1,000 random searches at schools—seizing 94 knives—and teachers’ unions are demanding more comprehensive prevention strategies.