{"id":289412,"date":"2025-04-24T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/student-stabs-4-others-one-fatally-at-a-french-high-school\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:06:09","slug":"student-stabs-4-others-one-fatally-at-a-french-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/student-stabs-4-others-one-fatally-at-a-french-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Stabs 4 Others, One Fatally, at a French High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/24\/multimedia\/24int-france-stabbing-kjlv\/24int-france-stabbing-kjlv-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Student Stabs 4 Others, One Fatally, at a French High School\" title=\"Student Stabs 4 Others, One Fatally, at a French High School\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A teenage student at a French high school in the western city of Nantes stabbed four other students during a lunch break on Thursday, killing one of them and injuring the others before he was overpowered and arrested, the authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The police did not immediately identify the assailant, but Le Parisien newspaper said a 15-year-old male student was responsible for the attack. BFM TV reported that the student killed was female. There was no apparent indication of any terrorist motive for the attack, but the antiterrorism prosecutor\u2019s office confirmed that it was evaluating the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u00c9lisabeth Borne, the education minister, and Bruno Retailleau, the interior minister, both rushed to the scene. Knife attacks in schools have become an issue of particular sensitivity in France after a series of episodes, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/22\/world\/europe\/france-teacher-stabbing.html\" title=\"\">including the fatal stabbing of a teacher by a student<\/a> at a private school in the southwestern city of St.-Jean-de-Luz in February 2023, and several more minor recent attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/faits-divers\/direct-attaque-au-couteau-dans-un-lycee-a-nantes-elisabeth-borne-et-bruno-retailleau-attendus-sur-place-24-04-2025-K5WB4V373JC6FM2XV3SF4BJQ54.php#576fac74-3f43-49dd-ae82-2f84a17ac547\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">French news media reported<\/a> that the assailant in Thursday\u2019s stabbing sent a manifesto earlier in the day to the school denouncing the state of the world, particularly \u201csystemic violence\u201d and \u201csocial alienation.\u201d The police did not immediately comment on the manifesto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The apparent manifesto said \u201cthe system infiltrates minds, bodies, relationships, emotions, desires and language,\u201d forming an \u201cinvisible architecture of mental submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attack occurred at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School, which was quickly surrounded by police and military forces. The local Ouest-France newspaper said the assailant had a helmet and a balaclava and was dressed in black. Two knives, including a hunting knife, were reportedly found with his belongings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Concerned about growing violence in schools, Ms. Borne and Mr. Retailleau wrote last month to regional prefects and heads of schools urging \u201crandom checks in the areas around educational establishments.\u201d It is unclear whether any increased security operations are already underway across France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The apparent manifesto said that technology was aimed at \u201crendering human beings docile, predictable and programmable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, which has made security a core part of its political program, reacted quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is more than time to take the necessary measures to eradicate the banalization of the extreme violence which is ravaging the heart of our schools,\u201d Ms. Le Pen, who has been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/world\/europe\/france-marine-le-pen-embezzlement-2027-election-ban.html\" title=\"\">barred from running for public office<\/a> after her recent conviction on embezzlement charges, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLP_officiel\/status\/1915401807431340285\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The single largest contributor to the French trauma over violence in schools was the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/26\/world\/europe\/france-beheading-teacher.html\" title=\"\">stabbing and decapitation of Samuel Paty<\/a>, a French history teacher, by an Islamist terrorist in October 2020, near his school in the Paris region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The terrorist, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen descent, Abdoullakh Anzorov, was shot and killed by the police shortly after the attack. He had been angered by the teacher\u2019s display of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to illustrate free speech in a civics class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Schools hold a place of near sacred importance in the structure of the French Republic because they are seen as the places where the culture of a secular, nondiscriminatory and colorblind society is taught, however far short of that ideal France may sometimes fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Le Stradic<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/world\/europe\/french-school-knife-attack.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage student at a French high school in the western city of Nantes stabbed four other students during a lunch break on Thursday, killing one of them and injuring the others before he was overpowered and arrested, the authorities said. 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