The 16-year-old student arrested for
stabbing to death a
Spanish teacher at a high school in San Juan de Luz, France,
"heard a little voice"
but is criminally responsible, the Bayonne prosecutor announced Thursday at a press conference.
Prosecutor Jerome Bourrier said he will open a judicial investigation on Friday "under the classification of
premeditated homicide."
"During his custody, the defendant spoke of a little voice that speaks to him, a being that he describes as selfish, manipulative, that incites
him to do evil
and that the day before he suggested he commit murder," said Bourrier, who explained that the defendant adolescent is under the supervision of a psychiatrist.
A student at the school, Mathieu Riviere, above with a flower as a tribute to the murdered teacher (AP).
"We also know that he had been affected by a discussion he had the day before with a friend and on this point he had ambiguous statements with the doctor who was asked to examine him, in a psychiatric context," explained the prosecutor.
The student would also have said that "he wanted to commit the facts in the presence of this boy with whom he had argued, as if to
punish him in some way
," he added.
The 52-year-old Spanish teacher was stabbed on Wednesday in the middle of class and could not be revived.
A police officer in custody at the school (AP).
The events occurred mid-morning during a class at the Saint-Thomas d'Aquin Catholic high school, attended by some 1,100 students, in the city of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
In tribute to the deceased, this Thursday a minute of silence was observed at 3:00 p.m. in institutes throughout the country.
he hated his teacher
According to the prosecutor, the suspect also acknowledged that he had "some animosity towards his Spanish teacher in a subject in which his results
were not good
, unlike other classes."
In the opinion of his classmates, the teenager was a "very good student" and had obtained an
honors degree
last year, according to the Bordeaux education authority.
Parents of students entering the school guarded by police (AP).
"Until now he was unknown to the judicial authorities, not only in criminal matters, but in terms of educational assistance, unknown to the child protection services," Bourrier continued.
It is the first time that a professor has been assassinated in the exercise of his duties in France since the murder of history professor Samuel Paty, on October 16, 2020 in the Paris region.
Paty was beheaded by a young Russian refugee of Chechen origin, a radical Islamist, who accused him of showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
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