Mortally stabbed by one of her students on February 22, Agnès Lassalle received the Legion of Honor posthumously, according to a decree published this Tuesday in the Official newspaper. The one who taught at the Saint Thomas d’Aquin high school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz was elevated to the rank of knight in order to salute her twenty-seven years of service.
On Wednesday February 22, a little before 10 a.m., a second-year student hit Agnès Lassalle in the chest with a kitchen knife with an 18 cm blade. Rescuers were unable to save her. The 16-year-old was charged with “murder”.
In police custody, the student explained that he had obeyed “a little voice in his head”, then informed the public prosecutor of Bayonne Jérôme Bourrier. His lawyer Me Thierry Sagardoytho considered that the teenager should be examined by psychiatrists in order to determine whether his discernment was “complete” or “on the contrary abolished, or possibly altered” at the time of the facts.