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Agence France-Presse

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday condemned “senseless ... violence” after a 14-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a teaching assistant, the latest deadly incident at a school in the country.
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.
France has in recent years seen several attacks on teachers and pupils by other schoolchildren.
In March, police started random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools.
The assistant at the Francoise Dolto school in Nogent was stabbed several times shortly before 8.00am, “as pupils were arriving for a visual inspection of their bags in the presence of the police”, education officials said.
The suspect was taken into custody.
Pupils were sent home and classes have been suspended for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Nora, a local who knew the victim, said she was “very sad” for the woman’s husband and young son.
“Today it happened in Nogent, but it could happen anywhere,” she said.
The alleged attacker, aged 14, was restrained by police officers present, prosecutor Denis Devallois said.
One officer was slightly injured, he added.

“While protecting our children, a teaching assistant lost her life, the victim of a senseless wave of violence,” Macron wrote on social media.
“The nation is in mourning and the government is mobilised to reduce crime,” he added.
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said the threat of knives among children had become “critical”.
“It is our responsibility to make this widespread scourge a public enemy,” he said on social media.
Education Minister Elisabeth Borne travelled to Nogent to express her support.
“I commend the composure and dedication of those who acted to subdue the attacker and protect the students and staff,” she said on social media.
In May, the deputy speaker of the French parliament, Naima Moutchou, said that carrying knives had become “a phenomenon” affecting “all areas” and people from all walks of life.
She presented Bayrou with a report on the possession of knives by minors.
Pupils who carried knives included young people who wanted to “defend themselves” and those who were “psychologically fragile”, she said.
Sophie Venetitay, general secretary of the leading middle and high school teachers’ union, voiced “anger at the thought that a teaching assistant was exposed in this way”.
“Teaching assistants have an educational role and are not security guards outside schools,” she said.

The teaching assistant was “simply doing her job by welcoming students at the entrance to the school”, added Elisabeth Allain-Moreno, secretary general of the teachers’ union.
She spoke of her “immense pain” over the killing.
“[It] shows that nothing can ever be completely secure and that it is prevention that needs to be focused on.”
Jean-Remi Girard, president of the National Union of Secondary Schools, added: “It’s impossible to be more vigilant 24 hours a day.
“We can’t say that every student is a danger or a threat. Otherwise, we’d never get out of bed in the morning.”
The interior ministry said on Tuesday that between March 26 and May 26, 6,000 checks led to the seizure of 186 knives.


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French gendarmes control the access to a secondary school after a 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed with a knife by a pupil during a bag search in Nogent on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron condemned “senseless violence” after a pupil fatally stabbed a teaching assistant. Photo: Reuters

France’s Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research Elisabeth Borne (centre) speaks with a student and her mother following her arrival at the school where a teaching assistant was stabbed by a pupil. Photo: AFP

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The French president denounced the ‘senseless violence’ after the deadly attack on a teaching assistant in Nogent in eastern France


The French president denounced the ‘senseless violence’ after the deadly attack on a teaching assistant in Nogent in eastern France.


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France’s Macron condemns deadly school stabbing after 14-year-old’s knife attack

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The French president denounced the ‘senseless violence’ after the deadly attack on a teaching assistant in Nogent in eastern France

The French president denounced the ‘senseless violence’ after the deadly attack on a teaching assistant in Nogent in eastern France