Striking in advance: student admitted after knife threat

According to initial findings, the twelve-year-old had already behaved suspiciously. So the English teacher sat next to her and heard her say, “I’m going crazy today. I feel like killing someone, the students who don’t like me.” The student in Rennes alluded to the murder of teacher Dominique Bernard. He was murdered two months ago by a jihadist-motivated former student.

Cell phone included
The girl then took a knife with a blade 17 centimeters long from her school bag. The teacher sent her class outside and also left the classroom with the child. Two men are said to have overpowered the twelve-year-old. According to a witness statement, the young French woman was upset because the teacher had taken her cell phone the week before. She was born in Marseille, her parents are from Mongolia and have the right to stay in France.

In June she was expelled from another school for insulting a teacher and bringing a knife to school. However, she didn’t use it. The student was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because she was ‘a danger to herself’. However, there are no indications of radicalization.

Union: “Tense situation”
“It is an isolated case, but it takes place in a tense context, as the situation is still very tense since the murder of Dominique Bernard,” said Matthieu Mahéo of a teachers union. More than three years ago, the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by a jihadist-motivated 18-year-old shocked the country.