A 14-year-old schoolgirl died after the knife attack in Souffelweyersheim, Alsace, on Thursday April 18. She had felt unwell during the confinement of her school.
The death toll from the knife attack that occurred in Souffelweyersheim, near Strasbourg, on Thursday afternoon has increased. If the two girls aged 11 and 7 injured by the suspect left the hospital with only “light physical injuries” according to the Strasbourg public prosecutor, a 14-year-old girl died.
The schoolgirl had suffered cardiorespiratory discomfort during the confinement of her school, the Collège des Sept-Ardents, put in place after the attack and during the intervention of the police. His death was announced by the rectorate this Friday, April 19. The young girl “had been rescued by teachers who very quickly called the fire services. She died at the end of the afternoon” despite her emergency treatment at the hospital, told AFP the academy rector, Olivier Faron.
The perpetrator of the knife attack was arrested Thursday afternoon, only a few minutes after the attacks on two children. He was placed in police custody and an investigation was opened for “attempted intentional homicide of minors aged 15 (and rebellion)”. The man’s motivations were still not known Thursday evening, but they did not seem “related to radicalization.” “No element of radicalization is known concerning him and no element allows these attacks to be linked to a terrorist act,” said the Strasbourg public prosecutor. According to information from BFMTV, the suspect suffers from psychiatric problems and has been out of treatment since last November.