The 16-year-old accused of stabbing his classmates at a secondary faculty in western France, killing one scholar, has been described by those that knew him as a loner who admired Adolf Hitler, a public prosecutor stated on Friday.
The knife assault passed off on Thursday at a personal Catholic faculty within the metropolis of Nantes. A 16-year-old lady was killed by the suspect, and two different college students, aged 15 and 16, had been injured.
The teenager didn’t give any causes for his actions after his arrest on Thursday and has been briefly admitted to a psychiatric ward, stated Nantes public prosecutor Antoine Leroy.
He stated the attacker attended lessons as standard that morning earlier than arming himself with a searching knife and placing on a masks in a faculty toilet round noon.
He then entered a classroom and fatally stabbed the lady – who was stated to have been the one peer with whom he had a optimistic relationship — 57 occasions. He then went on to randomly assault different college students in a separate classroom.
The rampage was stopped by a faculty IT technician who entered the room and struck the attacker with a chair, then held him at bay till police arrived.
Leroy stated {the teenager} had no prior contact with regulation enforcement.
Nonetheless, his mom had sought assist earlier this 12 months for his growing social isolation, and he had attended six periods at a counselling centre, he stated.
Faculty officers had additionally raised issues over his admiration for Hitler, prompting a gathering with faculty administration and his mom earlier this month.
On Friday, college students and members of the general public laid flowers outdoors the varsity in tribute to the slain lady.
