The secondary school student was arrested after attacking the 31-year-old assistant with a knife during a bag search in Nogent in eastern France, officials said.
Reports of bladed weapons in schools have jumped by 15 percent in the last year, according to government figures released in February. The education ministry said 6,000 checks in schools resulted in the seizure of 186 knives between March 26 and May 23.
The assistant at the Francoise Dolto school was stabbed several times as pupils arrived to have their bags inspected in the presence of police, education officials said.
“Young people are shocked,“ Borne said. “They are also very shocked to see that one of their classmates could commit such a horrific act. And this classmate was very well integrated in the middle school.”
“She was a very cheerful, very kind person.”
“While protecting our children, a teaching assistant lost her life, the victim of a senseless wave of violence,“ Macron wrote on X.
French lawmakers observed a minute’s silence in parliament.
“This is not just an isolated incident,“ he said.
Bayrou called for a trial of metal detectors in schools and for authorities to “tighten regulations” on knives by adding some that are not currently banned as weapons.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen used the stabbing attack to denounce “the apathy of the authorities”.
Hardleft firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon said authorities must better look after “the mental health” of young people, especially boys.
“That’s 3,000 young people a year who are arrested with a bladed weapon,“ Moutchou said.
“Teaching assistants have an educational role and are not security guards outside schools.”
The attack “shows that nothing can ever be completely secure and that it is prevention that needs to be focused on,“ she said.
Laurent Zameczkowski, spokesperson for the PEEP parents’ association, said “the real problem is the mental health of our young people, which has deteriorated since Covid.”
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