Overview

• The 17-year-old was taken into custody on June 4 after confessing on social media his intention to kill a female classmate who had labeled his friends “rapists.”
• Investigators recovered a knife hidden in a school supply pouch and an axe during a search of the suspect’s home, corroborating his online posts.
• Prosecutors upgraded charges from written death threats to attempted murder and unlawful introduction of a category D weapon into an educational institution.
• Dijon Prosecutor Olivier Caracotch declined to comment on the case’s outcome, citing the minor status of the suspect.
• The incident follows a series of violent attacks in French schools this spring, including a fatal stabbing in Nantes and other knife attacks in Échirolles and Essonne.