A high school student in France massacred his Spanish teacher during class

An unimaginable incident occurred this morning at a high school in France, when a student stabbed her Spanish teacher to death during class.

According to local prosecutor Jerome Poirier who confirmed the news to AFP, a 16-year-old high school student stormed a classroom at a school in the French city of Saint-Jean-de-Luz this morning around 10 local time and stabbed the Spanish teacher. . The French newspaper Le Figaro reported that the blow with a 10-centimeter blade found her in the heart.

Local media reported that the 53-year-old professor died of cardiac arrest when emergency services arrived on the scene.

According to the French newspaper Sud Ouest, the attacker entered the classroom while the Spanish language teacher was studying and attacked her. The French Minister of Education is on his way to Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

The unsub was hearing “voices.”

The intentions or motives of the student, born in 2007, who was arrested, remain unknown.

According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, the student, who finished last year with a “very good” grade, has no criminal record and is said to have said he “heard voices” at night ordering him to kill his teacher. The Public Prosecution assigned the Judicial Police to investigate. According to BFMTV network reports, judging by the first data, the teenager suffered from mental disorders.
According to the Bayonne prosecutor, who went there around 11 a.m. local time, the attacker was a student in the victim’s class.

Other students at the Catholic school Agios Thomas Aquinas have been asked to stay in their classes, according to France Bleu.

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Upon leaving the government, government spokesman Olivier Ferrand expresses his grief for the professor who died in the line of duty. He spoke of the shock her death caused to the country’s public opinion.

“It is a shock. A tragedy reminiscent of the murder of Samuel Paty and other incidents of violence against teachers had a less tragic ending.”