A 14-year-old girl died of a heart attack in eastern France after her school was closed to protect herself from a knife attacker.
The man lightly injured two other girls in the attack, but amid the chaos – pupils were terrified by the sound of slamming doors – the teenager suffered a heart attack and was later pronounced dead, a- we announced today.
The young girl was rescued by teachers who quickly called the firefighters. She died at the end of the afternoon,” said the head of education, Olivier Faron.
Her middle school in the village of Souffelweyersheim closed its doors on Thursday afternoon after a man stabbed two other girls – aged 7 and 11 – outside a nearby primary school.
Faron said that during the attack, the deceased teenager “unfortunately… suffered an episode of very high stress which led to a heart attack.”
A 14-year-old girl died of a heart attack in eastern France after her school (pictured Thursday) was closed to protect herself from a knife attacker who lightly injured two other girls, said Friday a manager – the students being terrified. by the sound of slamming doors
Friday morning, in front of the college, a mother declared that her son, in the first year of secondary school, had also been afraid during the confinement the day before.
“While in elementary school it was more of a game, here it was perhaps a little too direct,” Deborah Wendling said.
“He thought there was an armed person in the school. They could hear doors slamming, but really it was just other classrooms closing.
Faron defended the teachers.
“There is no perfect solution,” he said.
But we will analyze in depth what happened. If there are lessons to be learned, we will learn them.
The two girls injured in the attack were released from hospital Thursday evening with minor injuries.
The police arrested the attacker, aged 30, and an investigation was opened for “attempted murder of minors”, said the prosecution.
It was not immediately clear what motivated him, but he was “psychologically fragile” and it did not appear to be a “terrorist act,” according to the statement.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Thursday measures to combat violence among adolescents in and around schools.
The incident follows a series of attacks on schoolchildren by their peers, particularly the fatal beating of 15-year-old Shemseddine earlier this month in a Paris suburb.
France, which banned religious clothing in schools two decades ago in an effort to preserve secular tradition, remains determined to maintain the ban while protecting teachers and children.
Mr. Attal said last month that the country was raising its security alert to the highest level after the attack on the Moscow concert hall.
The young girl was rescued by teachers who quickly called the firefighters. She died at the end of the afternoon,” said the head of education, Olivier Faron.
Parents collect their children under the supervision of police and firefighters from a school in Souffelweyersheim, eastern France, after two girls were injured in a knife attack outside the school on April 18 2024.
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