Overview

• The stabbing occurred on June 10 outside a middle school in Paris’s eastern suburbs during a gendarmerie security check.
• A 15-year-old student used a knife to fatally wound a 31-year-old educational assistant.
• Gendarmes arrested the teenager at the scene and transferred him to the Nogent gendarmerie station.
• Officials isolated all 324 students in their classrooms during the emergency response.
• Authorities have opened a judicial inquiry to establish the motive behind the fatal attack.