The 12-year-old student, who threatened one of his teachers in Rennes on Wednesday December 13 without hurting her, was hospitalized after a psychiatric examination.
A 12-year-old student, attending a college in Rennes, threatened a teacher in the middle of class on Wednesday December 13 with a knife who was not injured. During a press conference, Philippe Astruc, public prosecutor of Rennes, explained that a student made threatening remarks in the middle of class: “I’m crazy today, I want to kill someone Today”. She would have threatened to kill her teacher but she would also have talked about students who don’t like her. She then allegedly took a 17 cm knife from her bag. “It happened in Arras, I want to do the same,” she would have said.
The student was then neutralized by the principal education advisor and a college mediator. Placed in judicial detention, she must be subjected to a “psychiatric examination”. A criminal investigation into attempted intentional homicide of a person responsible for a public service mission, entrusted to the Rennes departmental security, was opened by the Rennes public prosecutor’s office.
The schoolgirl was placed in judicial restraint as the law stipulates for children aged 10 to 13. The schoolgirl’s judicial restraint was lifted after her psychiatric examination, indicated Philippe Astruc, the patient being considered “dangerous for herself”. A provisional placement order was taken, “entrusting the minor to the departmental council with hospitalization in a specialized environment for the time necessary for care”, indicated the public prosecutor of Rennes.
What does she risk?
The doctors will now look at the psychological profile of the young girl and assess the state in which the patient was at the time she carried out this attempted attack. According to the law, any defendant under the age of 13 benefits by nature from the presumption of indiscrimination. Thus, people under the age of 13 are presumed not criminally responsible.
Two options are possible: if the psychiatric examination confirms that the minor was unaware of these acts, no criminal proceedings can be initiated against her. On the other hand, if he considers the schoolgirl to be aware of her actions, constraint measures could be put in place. For example, the student could be prohibited from going to college, or be entrusted to an institution relating to the judicial protection of youth.
Parents could pay damages if their child is held civilly liable. On the other hand, their criminal liability cannot be engaged since they did not commit the attempted attack on the professor.