The 16-year-old high school student who stabbed a teacher to death in the middle of class in Saint-Jean-de-Luz was charged on Friday with murder and placed in detention.
In police custody, the second-year student who stabbed his teacher of Spaniard Agnès Lassalle, 52, with a kitchen knife hidden in a roll of kitchen paper put forward a small voice that speaks to him “, had declared Thursday the public prosecutor in Bayonne, Jérôme Bourrier. According to the first statements of the teenager, who was remanded in custody in a penal institution for minors, she “ incites him to do evil and would have suggested to him the day before to commit an assassination “added the magistrate.
His lawyer wonders about his degree of criminal responsibility. THE ” personal motivations ” of the teenager, unknown to the judicial services, “ need to be probed, assessed, tested by psychiatrists “, in order to determine if his discernment was ” entire “, Or “ on the contrary abolished, or possibly altered “, declared to the press Me Thierry Sagardoytho at the exit of the judicial court of Bayonne.
Jérôme Bourrier had also indicated that an initial examination of the student in police custody had revealed “ a form of reactive anxiety that can interfere with discernment ” And “ elements of depression evolving for a year “, but ” no mental illness “. “ The adolescent appears accessible to criminal liability subject to the expertise that will have to be ordered and a possible alteration of his discernment “added the prosecutor.
(With AFP)