This Friday at the start of the afternoon, a schoolboy was arrested after threatening the principal of his establishment with a knife, according to the rectorate. This is, according to The Public Goodfrom the Edouard-Herriot college in Chenôve, near Dijon.
The head of the college managed to escape from her office, triggering the alarm, said the rector of the Dijon academy, Pierre N’Gahane. The police, who were intervening nearby, were able to arrest the 3rd grade student “very quickly,” he added.
The police, who were intervening nearby, were able to arrest the 3rd grade student “very quickly,” he added. The teenager had requested a meeting with the principal of the Edouard-Herriot college, in Chenôve, a sensitive suburb of Dijon, after his exclusion from the establishment for disciplinary problems.
“People are very shocked”
This student had already been excluded from another school before being admitted to Herriot college, according to the rector. “Little known to the justice system,” he is 15 years old, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch told Bien Public. He had disciplinary problems “but not of this nature”, for his part indicated the rector to the local daily.
After threatening the principal, he tried to return to his class but the latter was confined like the entire establishment, as is the procedure following the triggering of an alarm of this type. With the classroom door closed, the student remained in the hallway before finally being arrested. “The police were already intervening in the neighborhood and disarmed him very quickly,” continued the rector.
A “medical emergency unit” will be set up for the students and staff of this establishment, the prefect, Franck Robine, announced to Bien Public. “People are very shocked,” he said.
A senatorial report from a commission of inquiry pointed out at the beginning of March the “terrible loneliness” of teachers in the face of the threats and attacks to which they are subject, urging the State to initiate a “proactive approach” to help them.