A student was killed on Thursday at a knife attack at a Catholic high school in Nantes, three other students were seriously injured. The school staff overwhelmed the attacker and probably prevented other victims, said France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau at the scene. After that, police and auxiliary services were quickly on site and tried to save life. “This is a drama that shakes the whole nation.” The public prosecutor initially did not comment on the investigation and postponed a press conference that was initially planned for the evening. There will be information on Friday, said the Interior Minister. Even if there is no indication of a terrorist background, the anti-terrorist prosecutor will also look at the case, among other things with a view to a explanation sent by the attacker. First, he attacked a student who later succumbed to her serious injuries before attacking one floor deeper. As media reported, referring to the police, the school’s computer science officer stood in the way of the attacker, persecuted and overwhelmed him. Two knives were found in the student. He is said to have been dressed entirely in black and wore a storm hood. The regional newspaper Ouest-France quoted a classmate: “We are very shocked. You can only see something like that on TV. We never thought that something like this could happen in our school.” Before the act, the perpetrator sends a message to his classmate shortly before his attack, the attacker should have sent a news about the intranet of all fellow students, so In which he draws a dark picture of society, the media reported. In the 13-page document, the student is said to have denounced a destruction of the environment, systemic violence and social estrangement. The 15-year-old is not said to have been known to the police and the security authorities. Minister of Education Borne and Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau were expected in the afternoon at the crime scene. The students initially held in the classrooms for security reasons were now allowed to leave the school. The police and rescue workers were on site with numerous forces. Macron praises the teachers’ “I am in my thoughts among the families, the students and the entire educational community, whose shock and grief share the nation,” said President Emmanuel Macron. “Due to their intervention, the teachers undoubtedly prevented further dramas.” Their courage deserves respect. “After an accumulation of often fatal knife attacks among young people, also in the area of schools, France had recently started to train pocket controls. Prime Minister François Bayrou ordered the police to be intensified. Within four weeks, he also asked the government to contain the knife violence among young people. It is about regulations for buying, transporting and carrying stab weapons in which France can orientate itself to successful measures abroad.
New information on the crime of the knife attack in Nantes
