The funeral of the teacher killed last week in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) will take place Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Biarritz, we learned on Tuesday from a local elected official and from diocesan education. , confirming information from France Blue Basque Country.
Agnès Lassalle, a 53-year-old Spanish teacher, was stabbed in the middle of class, within the private Catholic establishment Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, by one of her 16-year-old second-year students. His family said they wanted his funeral to take place “in discretion”. The Catholic establishments of the diocese of Bayonne will offer “a time of communion with the family and of prayer for Agnès Lassalle”, according to the diocesan direction of Catholic education.
The teenager remanded in custody
A “very dedicated”, “listening” and “kind” teacher according to her relatives and her students, Agnès Lassalle had been in post for more than 25 years in this secondary school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz which has more than 1,000 students.
Last Friday, the teenager, indicted for “murder”, was placed in pre-trial detention. A judicial investigation for “premeditated murder” was opened by the Bayonne prosecutor’s office and the investigation was entrusted to the Bayonne judicial police service.
During his police custody, the pupil “brought forward a small voice which spoke to him, a being whom he described as selfish, manipulative, egocentric, who incited him to do evil and who would have suggested to him the day before to commit an assassination”, had related the prosecutor Jérôme Bourrier.
“The adolescent appears accessible to criminal liability subject to the expertise which will have to be ordered and a possible alteration of his discernment”, added the magistrate.