Overview

• Authorities say a 52-year-old teacher was seriously hurt and a 16-year-old student sustained superficial wounds, with neither in life-threatening condition.
• Police arrested the suspect on site after he was contained in the principal’s office, and a second knife was found in a backpack.
• The Grasse prosecutor said the 18-year-old, a former student of the Lycée Vert d’Azur, is in custody on counts including attempted assassination and bringing a weapon into a school.
• Prosecutors noted an earlier judicial proceeding concerning the suspect for apologie de crimes and flagged a psychiatric dimension, while the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office is observing the case.
• Outgoing agriculture minister Annie Genevard is traveling to the 450‑student horticultural school, as the incident renews focus on a series of recent knife attacks affecting French educational institutions.