A teacher from the Sonia-Delaunay professional high school in Blois (Loir-et-Cher) tried to end her life this Friday, March 11 in the early morning while she was giving a course, we learned from the prosecution. de Blois, confirming information from
La Nouvelle République.
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The incident occurred early in the morning, around 8:30 a.m.
The teacher, in her fifties, climbed on a radiator and then defenestrated herself from her classroom, located on the second floor, under the eyes of her students to whom she was giving a course in management-administration.
The emergency services were immediately alerted by the establishment.
Conscious after his fall, the victim was transported to the Blois hospital center with a vital prognosis.
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Access to the establishment was closed during the evacuation by the emergency services.
A psychological cell was also immediately set up for the fifteen or so students who witnessed the incident.
"We have set up a psychological support unit with the DSDEN teams for students and teachers and we have received support from the Samu's medico-psychological emergency unit
," said the academic director. Sandrine Lair to our colleagues from
La Nouvelle République
.
The latter went there and was still there a little before noon.
An investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances of the incident and the reasons that led the teacher to commit such an act.
For the investigators, it is a question in particular of being interested in the personality of the victim.
"There is already no doubt that we are dealing here with a suicide attempt"
, indicates Frédéric Chevalier, the public prosecutor of Blois.