Overview

• Mélanie, 31, will be posthumously awarded the Légion d’honneur and the title of Commandeur des Palmes académiques, and her 4-year-old son will be granted pupille de la Nation status.
• The Education Ministry has ordered that schools adopt protocols by year-end to identify and manage student psychological distress.
• The 14-year-old student was charged with aggravated murder and placed in pretrial detention, facing up to 20 years in prison due to his minor status.
• Prosecutors said the suspect exhibited no signs of mental illness but showed a fascination with violence and confessed he wanted to kill “any” school monitor.
• A white march in Nogent last week drew around 1,500 participants, and Mélanie’s funeral was held privately in Sarcey.