The schoolgirl from the Hautes Ourmes establishment, who said she wanted to attack her English teacher, was hospitalized.
After the shock at college, the questions. How was a student from a school in Rennes able to take a weapon out of her bag with the intention of killing a teacher? During the night, from Wednesday to Thursday, this young 12-year-old girl was taken into hospital care, given her state of mental health. Because this is the element that emerges as a priority for the prosecution and for the investigators: the young schoolgirl shows signs of significant psychological disorders. The psychiatric examination carried out yesterday concluded that “the minor was ‘dangerous for herself’ and that her condition required care in a specialized environment”, said the public prosecutor of Rennes in a press release this Wednesday morning, without provide further details.
The prosecutor held a press briefing on Wednesday to take stock of this case and provide the first information on this teenager, in 5th grade, who threatened her English teacher with a knife in the middle of class. The events took place between 9:30 a.m. and 9:50 a.m. at the Hautes-Ourmes college. According to revelations made by the public prosecutor, the English teacher declared that her student had told her that she was “crazy” and “wanted to kill someone today, to kill the students”.
In his viewfinder more particularly, those who don’t like him and the person who [était] in front [d’elle]”, she would have said. Still according to her teacher, the young girl would have added: “It happened in Arras, I will do the same.” The student would then have suggested to her teacher to see the weapon she had brought. It was then that she took out a 17 centimeter knife from her schoolbag. “At that time, other students realized the situation,” said the public prosecutor.
The English teacher would then have had the reflex to evacuate the classroom where she would have remained alone for a while with the student who was threatening her, before finally fleeing in turn. “At that moment, in the corridor, a teacher who was giving lessons with an open door [a compris] there [avait] an abnormal situation and [s’est rendue] in the hallway and [a agrippé] his colleague, brought him into his class and [a fermé] lock her class”, further detailed Philippe Astruc. The 12-year-old teenager was then arrested and disarmed by a middle school mediator and a principal education advisor. An investigation into “attempted intentional homicide on a person responsible for ‘a public service mission’ was opened and is now running its course.
The young girl’s family, of Mongolian origin, is not known to the police, she is in a regular situation. The teenager had already become known for behavioral and communication disorders in the past. Still according to the prosecutor, “between January and June of last year, she showed up at her school in Chalais with a knife in her schoolbag”. The teenager had also “been the subject of a disciplinary council hearing in June following verbal threats and insults to a teacher. The disciplinary council had decided to exclude her”.