The pupil -- whose name and age were not specified but whose classmates said had written a manifesto against “globalised ecocide” -- was arrested after finally being overpowered by school staff.
In the latest case of teenage violence, the assailant attacked fellow students with a knife at the Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides secondary school in the western city of Nantes at around 12:30 pm (1030 GMT), a police source said.
“Through their intervention, teachers likely prevented other tragedies. Their courage demands respect,“ he said.
He called for a “collective awakening” in the face of “endemic violence” among “a segment of our youth”, and demanded proposals within four weeks to prevent further “violence committed by minors” with knives.
“I was in the cafeteria with my friends and we were told that a high school pupil had stabbed students in several classrooms,“ she said, without giving her name.
She added the assailant “was known to be depressed, he said he loved Hitler”.
Site sealed off
Students had been immediately confined inside the school, the statement added.
Concerned parents gathered outside of the school, which had already been cordoned off by police who, with French soldiers, were guarding the site.
“As an anxious mother who doesn’t let her out alone, I never thought anything would happen to her at her school,“ she said.
Borne in February said police would start random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools in a bid to deal with an increase in violent attacks.
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