Overview
- A 31-year-old teaching assistant died on June 10 after a 15-year-old student stabbed her multiple times during a bag search at Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent.
- Authorities arrested the pupil, who had no prior criminal record, and a gendarme suffered minor hand injuries while restraining the attacker.
- President Macron called the incident a senseless wave of violence and declared national mourning.
- Education Minister Elisabeth Borne traveled to Nogent to support the school community and local law enforcement.
- The attack underscores growing concerns over school security despite bag checks that have seized nearly 100 knives in more than 900 inspections this year.